Doug Jones: ‘People Are Looking for Change … Someone Who Can Work Across the Aisles’ in Alabama

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Collins: “You have officially launched now, as you well know, probably everybody watching a Democrat has not been the governor of Alabama in over a quarter century or something. And you went head to head against Tommy Tuberville, who‘s also running for governor. Obviously, that was for the Senate seat. He won by a 6040 margin. I was there when you shocked the nation by defeating Roy Moore for the Senate seat. Before that, in 2017. Why do you think that people should expect surprises from Alabama this time?”
Jones: “You know, because I think the whole world is different right now. I think the United States of America is different. People are hurting out there right now. Caitlin. People are seeing their their electricity bill skyrocketing, whether it‘s data centers or other things, they‘re seeing their their power bills, they‘re seeing their health care, they‘re losing their health care. People are very concerned about what they‘re seeing coming out of Washington and what they‘re seeing coming out of a state like Alabama, which just endorses just about everything coming out of Washington. Farmers in Alabama have lost markets, their soybeans to argentina at the same time that Tommy Tuberville and the Republicans in Congress go ahead and authorize a $40 billion going to argentina. This is different. This was 2017 was an amazing year. 2020 was a year that we struggled, obviously, for a lot of reasons, even in Covid. But you know what? I think this is a different era. This is a different time. People are looking for change. People are looking for someone who can bridge the gaps, someone that can work across the aisles. And if there is one thing and you know this as well as anybody, Caitlin, if there‘s one thing that I can bring to the table as governor of Alabama, it‘s being able to work with everybody to to do things that both Republicans, Democrats and independents like to see. There‘s a big difference now than what we‘re seeing in in”