More than 55 percent of the state’s voters still approve of Trump’s job performance, nearly 20 points above the national average.īut Trump’s “complete and total endorsement” of Strange may not be enough to put the man known as “Big Luther” - he’s 6-foot-9 - over the top. What the hell is going on in Alabama?” Luther Strange: a Senate incumbent weighed down by ties to “the establishment”Ĭonservative voters in this deep red state handed Trump a big victory in the 2016 presidential primary, and then did so again in the general election. “There must be something going on behind the scenes that we do not know about,” Scott Chambers, a host on 101.1 FM Yellowhammer News, told his listeners on Monday. But to the surprise of many conservatives here, Trump is not only passing on the opportunity to hurt McConnell’s preferred candidate - he’s going out of his way to actively help him. The presence of those candidates gave Trump a golden opportunity to stick it to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose allies have spent millions of dollars supporting Strange. Moore first gained prominence in national conservative circles in 2003 for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from his courthouse, and then again in 2015 for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses after same-sex marriage was legalized. Mo Brooks, a Tea Party darling, and former Judge Roy Moore, a favorite of evangelicals and a lightning rod for controversy - are mounting credible campaigns against Strange.īrooks has the backing of popular conservative radio hosts like Mark Levin who are typically closely aligned with the president. Robert Bentley, who appointed Strange to the seat. Luther Strange, who has been dogged on the campaign trail by a fog of scandal tied to former - and now disgraced - Gov. Over two days in Alabama, more than a dozen voters admitted to being deeply confused by Trump’s high-profile endorsement of incumbent Sen. Many other Republicans here expressed similar bewilderment. “Maybe there was some kind of private deal cut between Senate leadership and the White House.”
“I voted for Trump, but I don’t know how to explain it,” said Whisenant, 41, a construction executive in northern Alabama. The issue: Trump has thrown his weight behind a candidate in Alabama’s Senate GOP primary who Whisenant thinks represents the very “swamp” Trump promised to drain. But the conservative Alabaman is dumbfounded by the president’s intervention in his state’s election on Tuesday. HOMEWOOD, Alabama - Kerrick Whisenant loves Donald Trump.
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