Winners and losers from Alabama
The Washington Post looks at the winners and losers from the stunning win for the Democrats in Alabama.
Winners
- Democrats’ Senate majority hopes – now only need to pick up two seats in 2018
- The #MeToo movement
- Democrats’ pulse in the Deep South – the first win since 1992
- African American turnout
- The gender gap – Moore won men by 13% but lost women by 17%
Losers
- President Trump – Moore’s 2nd biggest backer
- Stephen Bannon – Moore’s biggest backer
- Senate Republicans – lost half their majority
- Mitch McConnell
- Roy Moore’s surrogates