Jones served the truncated remainder of Jeff Sessions's term (Jan 2018-Jan 2021) after winning a special election in December 2017. He lost re-election to Tommy Tuberville by 20 points in 2020.
Gordon Douglas Jones kept 7 of his 8 graded promises, with one partial completion and zero broken commitments. His promise scorecard shows an 87.5% kept rate on tracked pledges. We don't yet have detailed donor data or vote-by-vote records showing which industries or committees fund his campaigns, or how those contributions align with his voting record.
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Jones kept 88% of 8 promises tracked for the 2015–2021 term. Each verdict is term-scoped, primary-sourced, and reviewed by three sequential reviewers (neutral · conservative · progressive).
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Gordon Douglas Jones's campaign-promise scorecard: 88% kept of 8 graded. Source: campaignreceipts.com/r/doug-jones
Primary-source promise tracker, campaignreceipts.com.
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Jones voted with Trump on 35% of votes per FiveThirtyEight tracker — one of the highest crossover rates among Senate Democrats. He voted yes on Kavanaugh's predecessor and a number of conservative judicial nominees.
Jones voted no on Kavanaugh (Oct 6, 2018, 50-48). He was the only Democrat from a state Trump won by double-digits to vote no.
Jones was sworn in Jan 3, 2018, after the TCJA Senate vote of Dec 20, 2017. He voted yes on subsequent ACA-defense amendments and no on every ACA-rollback amendment that received a vote.
Jones voted yes on the First Step Act (Pub.L. 115-391, Senate vote 87-12, Dec 18, 2018).
Jones co-sponsored expanded background-check legislation but no major Senate floor vote occurred during his term. He voted to advance the bipartisan Fix NICS Act, which was included in the FY2018 omnibus.
Jones voted yes on all three NDAA bills during his term (FY2019 117-9, FY2020 86-8, FY2021 84-13), each supporting Huntsville/Redstone Arsenal contract priorities.
Jones voted yes on CARES Act (March 25, 2020, 96-0), the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, and the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 (Dec 21, 2020).
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