Is Sen. Sanders taking credit for Jones victory? Most of the responses

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39. You could dig a little deeper to find out why.

Seems to me the Jones campaign thought it was a bad idea for outsiders, especially northern liberals, to be seen as meddling. In addition, Jones declined to go to Washington for a fund raiser, for just this reason.

An Alabama Senate Candidate Keeps Democratic Leaders Away — but Not Their Money

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/us/politics/alabama-doug-jones-roy-moore-democrats.html

National Democratic groups have not spent a dollar on their own television or radio commercials promoting Mr. Jones, a former federal prosecutor. The party’s most popular campaigners, such as former President Barack Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, have not set foot in the state.

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“It’s an Alabama race,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said at a news conference on Monday, repeating the phrase three times for emphasis. ... as Mr. Schumer demonstrated, they are acutely aware of the risk of being seen as orchestrating the race from afar.

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And far from being shunned by the party, Mr. Jones’s top advisers have been open about which direction the shunning is going.

“Stay home, this is our race and we’ll decide it here,” said Giles Perkins, a former Alabama Democratic Party chairman and one of Mr. Jones’s strategists.

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Mr. Jones decided not to travel to Washington on Tuesday night for a $500 per-person cocktail party fund-raiser headlined by such Democratic luminaries as Senator Kamala Harris and Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, because he saw no reason to do anything that could let Republicans redirect the focus of the campaign from Mr. Moore.

It could be that B Sanders and others were working behind the scenes.

Bernie Sanders, Randall Woodfin may aid Doug Jones in Senate campaign

http://www.alreporter.com/2017/10/26/reports-bernie-sanders-woodfin-troops-may-coming-aid-jones-senate-campaign/

Wednesday, October 17, The New York Times reported that “national leaders, including Senators Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, have appealed to Mr. (Randall) Woodfin to deploy his field organization to help Mr. Jones in the Special Election for the Senate.”

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