Senator Doug Jones promises independence

Doug Jones, the newly elected Democrat Senator from Alabama, said Sunday in a message to his new colleagues that he will be independent.

Jones defeated the Republican candidate Roy Moore last week in the interim election. Moore was heavily contested by accusations of sexual harassment. Partly because of this, the arch conservative state is now represented in the Senate for the first time in 25 years by a Democrat as successor to Jeff Sessions. He joined the Trump government as a minister.