{"id":35253,"date":"2026-06-17T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=35253"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:00:13","slug":"dems-crown-senate-nominee-in-solidly-red-alabama-ahead-of-steep-midterm-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=35253","title":{"rendered":"Dems crown Senate nominee in solidly red Alabama ahead of steep midterm climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Judge Everett Wess has won the Democratic Senate nomination in solidly red Alabama, in the race to succeed Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who is running for governor this year.<br \/>\nWess defeated small business owner Dakarai Larriett in the Democratic Senate runoff, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday night.<br \/>\nWess and Larriett finished first and second in last month\u2019s primary, in the four-candidate field. But since no one topped 50% of the vote, Wess and Larriett advanced to Tuesday\u2019s runoff election.<br \/>\nDEMOCRACY \u201926: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB<\/p>\n<p>Wess will be considered the clear underdog in the general election against the Republican nominee. Rep. Barry Moore, who was backed by President Donald Trump, defeated former Navy SEAL sniper Jared Hudson in the GOP nomination runoff election Tuesday.<br \/>\nOther than former Democratic Sen. Doug Jones\u2019 2017 special election victory, it\u2019s been over three decades since a Democrat has won a Senate election in Alabama.<br \/>\nTHESE MIDTERM RACES WILL DETERMINE WHETHER REPUBLICANS HOLD THEIR SENATE MAJORITY<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<br \/>\nTuberville, a former Auburn University head football coach, is running for governor this year rather than seeking re-election to the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Former Judge Everett Wess has won the Democratic Senate nomination in solidly red Alabama, in&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-pick","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}