GOP leaders weigh drastic plan to save Alabama Senate seat

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18. even if the plan could be pulled off it won't work

First, it's hard to see how/why any vacancy created by Strange resigning would have to be filled by a different special election than the one currently scheduled. (If all of this was taking place in 2020, just before the regular election to fill that seat, I don't think the resignation of a Senator a month before that election would trigger an a separate special election. Second, there simply isn't time -- there'd have to be another primary and then another election and by then you'd be pushing up against the 2018 elections -- who would the governor appoint to fill Strange's seat for the next year?

And it wouldn't work anyway. Moore would file to run in the primary and he might win unless the republican party barred him from running. Which would piss off Moore and his supporters so much that Moore might very well launch a third party candidacy that at very least would ensure that the Republican candidate loses (the winner would either be the Democrat or, less likely, Moore).