Author: Virginia Martin
U.S. Senate Special Election Voter Guide
Voters will go to the polls Aug. 15 to select party nominees for the U.S. Senate seat vacated earlier this year by now U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
BirminghamWatch, along with WBHM 90.3, Starnes Publishing, and the Trussville Tribune, are collaborating to offer this one-stop, interactive, non-partisan Voter Guide.
Candidate profiles, campaign contributor lists and voter information are in the Voter Guide below.
Republican Senate Candidate List and Profiles Democratic Senate Candidate List and Profiles
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Developments in the Senate Race:
Trump Sends Robocall for Strange in Alabama (Politico)
Alabama GOP Senate Primary Gets Even Strange-er After Trump Intervention (New York Magazine)
Trump’s Choice in Alabama Senate Race is Struggling Ahead of Tuesday’s Primary as Republican Loyalties Split (LA Times)
Trump-Era Party Divisions Show in Alabama GOP Senate Race (Wall Street Journal)
Crowded Field of Alabama Candidates Fight for Open Seat in Senate (Open Secrets)
Alabama Senate Race Tests Trump, McConnell Reach (AP)
Democrats Hope for a Comeback in the U.S. Senate Race (WBHM) )5 Questions as Alabama Casts Votes in U.S. Senate Primary)
(Montgomery Advertiser)
Low Voter Turnout Predicted in Today’s Special U.S. Senate Race (Decatur Daily)
Parents Criticize Birmingham Public Schools. Still, ‘Somebody in Every School is Fighting for Something,’ They Say.
“Why are parents having to create battle strategies?”
The question was from Nicholas – a new parent, a teacher, a volunteer supporting Birmingham public schools – and addressed to Birmingham parents of school-age children.
It came in a BW Listening conversation focused on education issues Thursday at Woodlawn United Methodist Church. BirminghamWatch is asking what’s on the minds of Birmingham voters as they approach elections of a mayor, members of the City Council and members of the school board.
Read more.
Democratic Senate Candidates
Republican Senate Candidates
Charles Nana (D)
Democratic candidate, U.S. Senate
Vann Caldwell (D)
Democratic candidate, U.S. Senate
Bryan Peeples (R)
Republican candidate, U.S. Senate
Mary W. Maxwell (R)
Republican candidate, U.S. Senate
Joseph F. Breault (R)
Republican candidate, U.S. Senate
Roy S. Moore (R)
Republican candidate, U.S. Senate