5/22/17 Group Watch: AL Senate Race
Last Wednesday, May 17, marked the closing deadline for entering the race for U.S. Senator. The primary is in approximately three months, with a runoff, if needed, to be held September 26. The general election is on December 12. Eleven Republicans and eight Democrats qualified.
Republican qualifiers are as follows:
- U.S. Senator Luther Strange (Former Alabama Attorney General)
- U.S. Representative Mo Brooks of Huntsville
- Roy Moore (Former Supreme Court Chief Justice)
- Dr. Randy Brinson (Former head of the Christian Coalition of Alabama)
- Dominic Gentile of Hoover
- Bryan Peeples of Birmingham
- State Senator Trip Pittman of Baldwin County
- Dr. James Beretta of Indian Springs
- Mary Maxwell
- Joseph F. Breault
- Karen Haiden Jackson of Prattville
Democratic qualifiers are as follows:
- Michael Hansen
- Doug Jones of Birmingham
- Robert Kennedy, Jr. of Mobile
- Jason Fisher of Orange Beach
- Will Boyd of Lauderdale County
- Vann Caldwell of Talladega County
- Brian McGee of Lee County
- Nana Tchienkou of Jefferson County
