NEW: Former AG and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville are neck-and-neck in the Republican primary race for US Senate on Tuesday night and likely headed for a runoff; Roy Moore won't make runoff.
They are trailed by three-term GOP Rep. Bradley Byrne, who has 27.3 percent of the vote, while 6.8 percent of voters had cast ballots for Roy Moore, the 2018 Republican candidate who lost amid allegations that he'd had improper sexual contact with young girls. Moore won't make the runoff, NBC projects.The race will likely proceed to a March run-off race if none of the candidates win majority support in the crowded primary, before the winner goes up against Democrat Sen.
Once the state’s popular senior senator, Sessions left the job to become President Donald Trump's attorney general. But the president soured on his attorney general when Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe and the president ousted Sessions from the job the day after the midterm elections in November.
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