Montgomery (US), Nov 4 (AP) Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville has recaptured a US Senate seat for Republicans by defeating Senator Doug Jones in Alabama. Jones had widely been considered the Senate's most endangered Democrat.

Republicans had made recapturing the once reliably conservative seat a priority in 2020.

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Tuberville, who has never held public office and last coached four years ago, aligned himself closely with President Donald Trump and declared in the primary campaign: “God sent us Donald Trump.”

Jones had won the seat during a 2017 special election in which GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore was publicly accused of sexual misconduct involving young women decades ago.

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The GOP hammered Jones over his vote to convict Trump in the Senate impeachment trial earlier this year. (AP)

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