Alabama's Doug Jones isn't really running for reelection

Mobile, Alabama — To voters here in Alabama, incumbent Democratic Sen. Doug Jones is almost entirely written off as a candidate for reelection. He has almost no chance to win. His speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention, therefore, was aimed less at his home state’s voters than at national Democratic power brokers.

Doug Jones really isn’t running for reelection; he’s running for a Cabinet post in a Biden administration.