The only real takeaway here is that Sessions is hated in the state and has no chance of winning the runoff unless a miracle happens.
This sums it up quite nicely. Jones is absolutely friggin toast. There is no way in creation Trump carries Bama by +25 (at minimum) and the people don't check the Republican senator too. The only chance Jones has is (as you said) Sessions wins a runoff miracle. Even then Jones' chances are losing by high single digits on a good night. The only chance he has is if Trump openly rebukes Sessions enough to damn near mind-control the Bama populous into outright refusing to vote for him. Jones wins by like 11,000 votes because every democrat in the state cast their vote for him and Sessions loses because the voter abstinence was record-shattering.
If this DIDN'T happen and Jones just somehow outright won against a guy like Tuberville it would be (at the risk of sounding hyperbolic) one of the greatest political upsets of our lifetime. By that point, Jones would be one of the greatest legends of the party ever for being such a survivor to rattle off 2 impossible wins like that.
Meanwhile DNC headquarters be like "HOW DID YOU GET THE TURNOUT??!"
Sessions is literally Bob Corker 2.0. Another Deep South former GOP senator who is now reviled by his own party's voters in his home state.
