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'That was no coincidence!' Ex-Alabama senator explains Trump mystery puzzling pundits

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RawStory reports that former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones said President Donald Trump’s rally in deep-red Alabama was not primarily about the midterms. Jones argued that its timing—on the day of a major bridge project’s groundbreaking—showed Trump was campaigning to have the bridge named after him.

Jones, now the Democratic nominee for Alabama governor, told Jen Psaki that Trump had “virtually nothing to do with” the bridge. Psaki noted that most of its funding came from former President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law. Jones said the Republican congressman proposing Trump’s name and…

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