I don't know what made me think for a minute that you might be one of the left leaning/liberal members that was actually interested in having a conversation - apparently a mistake on my part
but what the hell, I will try one more time...
I live in Alabama and what happened during our special election for Senate is easy to explain
Alabama is a state where democrats need a perfect storm to win a statewide election, and they got it
Republicans ran a very bad candidate that was disliked by a large percentage of people, including a large number of republicans
The dems got damned near full participation from blacks (one of the things they have to have to win)
This happened because Moore was successfully branded as a racist and because the Democratic candidate was a guy that had prosecuted black church bombers
Republican turnout was lower than expected, mostly because of a lack of enthusiasm for their candidate, and many suburban republicans crossed over and voted AGAINST Moore (as opposed to FOR Jones)
Despite all of this, Moore still almost won (the final tally was 49.9% to 4804% - just over 20K votes out of 1.3+ million votes cast)
Moore was able to win the Republican primary because his opponent (Luther Strange) had been rightfully branded as unethical based on his actions that led to his appointment to Sessions' seat by our former disgraced governor
Doug Jones has zero chance to retain his seat during the 2020 election cycle, especially with it being a presidential election year
Glad I could help clear this up for you