{"id":19298,"date":"2017-12-13T14:35:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/13\/alabama-election-democrats-triumph-over-roy-moore-in-major-blow-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T14:35:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:35:59","slug":"alabama-election-democrats-triumph-over-roy-moore-in-major-blow-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=19298","title":{"rendered":"Alabama election: Democrats triumph over Roy Moore in major blow to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Jones becomes first Democrat to win any statewide office in Alabama in decades after Moore\u2019s campaign for Senate marred by sexual assault claimsRoy Moore\u2019s stunning defeat reveals the limit of Trump-style politicsDoug Jones victory speech: \u2018This race has been about dignity\u2019The Democrat Doug Jones has beaten his Donald Trump-backed Republican rival Roy Moore in the diehard Republican state of Alabama, setting off a political earthquake likely to shake Washington.His victory in a special election for a US Senate seat \u2013 by a margin of 49.9 to 48.4 with 100% of precincts reporting \u2013 is a major personal blow to the president and his efforts to pass tax reform on Capitol Hill. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/dec\/12\/roy-moore-loses-alabama-senate-race-doug-jones-wins\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama election: Democrats triumph over Roy Moore in major blow to Trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Jones becomes first Democrat to win any statewide office in Alabama in decades after Moore\u2019s campaign for Senate marred by sexual assault claimsRoy Moore\u2019s stunning defeat reveals the limit of Trump-style politicsDoug Jones victory speech: \u2018This race has been about dignity\u2019The Democrat Doug Jones has beaten his Donald Trump-backed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}