Will Epstein be on the 2026 midterm ballot?

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – When Doug Jones announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in a 2017 special election, he was considered a long shot as a Democratic candidate running for statewide office in the deeply Republican state of Alabama. The special election was held following the resignation of Republican incumbent Jeff Sessions, who stepped down to become the U.S. Attorney General in the first Trump administration. Related Stories As a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Jones’s most prominent cases in 2001 and 2002 were successful prosecutions of two Ku Klux Klan members who were responsible for the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. The attack resulted in the death of four young girls. After nearly 40 years, long-overdue justice and closure were given to the victims and their families. Fast forward to 2017, Jones shocked the political establishment by becoming the first Democrat in 25 years to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama. During the general election, he faced Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. The election, which pitted a former judge against a former prosecutor, was not just a race over political ideology. It would soon become a...