Folks, we are less than two weeks away from our election contest for our U.S. Senate seat. The runoff between former Sen. Jeff Sessions and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville may be close and will be interesting.
The two conservatives were in a virtual dead heat in the March 3 GOP primary. Rep. Bradley Byrne, the Republican U.S. representative from the first district (primarily Mobile and Baldwin counties), finished a strong third.
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