text: Attendees hug while celebrating during an election night party for Senator-elect Doug Jones, a Democrat from Alabama, in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Alabama's U.S. Senate race should have been an easy victory for a Republican candidate in a state that hasn't sent a Democrat to the chamber in a generation and overwhelmingly backed President Donald Trump in last year's election. Photographer: Nicole Craine/Bloomberg