Former Auburn and Cincinnati head football coach has been elected to the United States Senate after defeating incumbent Doug Jones in Alabama, per the Associated Press.
Tuberville, a Republican, held a 11-point lead in the latest Auburn University poll, per Real Clear Politics. He held 594,368 votes to Jones' 368,401 votes in "incomplete, unofficial returns" at 9:11 p.m. ET, when the AP called the race, per Brian Lyman of the Montgomery Advertiser.
Tuberville will begin his term in January, per Lyman.
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