With Tuesday’s runoff election result of former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville defeating former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, incumbent U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) now knows who he will face in November’s general election.
During an interview with Huntsville radio WVNN’s “The Jeff Poor Show,” Jones said he anticipated a “very spirited” election campaign.
However, he said he was hoping for the general election campaign to be more focused on issues than the GOP primary had been.
“I’ve sent out congratulations in every media thing that I’ve done to Tommy Tuberville on his win last night,” he said Wednesday. “We’re looking for a very spirited campaign going into November. I’m actually hoping that as we go forward to November, we will, and I know I’m going to be talking about a lot of the issues that face Alabama, and I hope Tommy Tuberville will as well. The Republican primary has been kind of lacking in real issues that people of the state face, especially during this health care crisis and this economic crisis. We’re looking forward to a really spirited campaign going into November, and it is just now beginning.”
Jones also said he would be open to a debate with Tuberville, but said he was skeptical about the prospects.
“I doubt he will want to do that,” Jones replied. “If he doesn’t want to debate Jeff Sessions, I doubt he is going to want to debate me. But I think debates are a part of our democracy. I think we owe it to the people of Alabama. I’m not going to challenge or throw down a gauntlet, but I am ready to debate any time, any place. I think that is the way we get things done, but we’ll see how it goes. I think the bigger question is, what will Tommy Tuberville do?”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly and host of Huntsville’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 2-5 p.m. on WVNN.
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