AL-SEN - Democrats already quietly conceding the race

[Anna Komnene]

If you read the article, you'll see that everything is pretty much proceeding as normal. Doug Jones has 8 million CoH, which is a massive amount of money to spend in an Alabama race. Aside from the 2017 special, it's just as much as any Republican has spent there in any race in recent memory. A brief look at his filings show that he generally raises over half of his money from small donors, so he is not really reliant on the help of big donors. It also notes that because Alabama is not a battleground in the presidential race, they can easily buy up cheap ads later on and that national Republicans haven't invested in the race either.

And actually the national democrats did pretty much the same thing in the special election. News that a Democratic PAC supported Jones was actually a pre-election day scandal. Running campaigns in conservative states is tricky business. As I recall, Jones' 2017 campaign manager talked about having to redirect "well-intentioned yankees" who wanted to go knocking on doors during the campaign. So while I'm sure there will be support at some point, it will probably be quiet. Jones' team has always had a conscious strategy to be somewhat removed from the national Dems in the public eye.

None of this is to say that I think Jones has a chance. He almost definitely doesn't, but it won't be because he doesn't have the resources to run a quality campaign.