'A perfect storm': How liberal millennials and African Americans delivered a stunning Alabama result

Groups that drove Doug Jones’ win over Roy Moore – and Donald Trump – in the Senate election insist Democrats must not simply take credit and relax

Jordan Crenshaw was home-schooled in small-town Alabama. “You waved at people at stop signs,” she recalls. “Your community was very completely reflective of your church. It was a very conservative upbringing, politically and religiously.”

Crenshaw’s father voted for Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election. But when his fellow Republican Roy Moore, an accused paedophile, looked on course for victory in this week’s US Senate race in Alabama, Crenshaw turned to her husband and said: “Can we live here? Can we raise our children here?”

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