There were chants, of course, because a rally isn’t a rally without chants.

But the soundtrack to the rally Friday in support of President Donald Trump in downtown Huntsville were car horns. As traffic moved along busy Clinton Avenue, there were short horn bursts, the quick bursts of repeated horn honking and even one driver who pulled up to the traffic light and stood on his horn for at least five seconds.

A cement truck driver yanked on the cord hanging from the ceiling of the cab to honk his horn and one woman simply pulled up to the intersection videoing the scene.

Trump supporters rallied outside the Regions Bank building that houses an office for Sen. Doug Jones, an effort to send a message to Alabama’s junior senator that even though he is a Democrat, he should vote to acquit the impeachment charges brought against the president.

Similar rallies are planned for locations near Jones’ offices in downtown Birmingham at noon Monday outside the Vance Federal Building at 1800 5th Avenue North and Mobile at noon Tuesday at 41 West I-65 Service Road North.

"We want Doug Jones to vote no against the impeachment of our president," said Robbie Norman of Hazel Green. "He's doing an excellent job. Democrat or Republican, he's doing a good job. Sen. Jones should vote against impeachment."

Norman was among about 35 to 40 people gathered for Trump, wearing a white t-shirt with "U Salty?" on the front and #MYPRESIDENT on the back.

She pointed out that the U on her t-shirt was designed to show a tear.

"It just means some of them are just bitter," Norman said. "They can't get over their bitterness so they're salty. We're not salty. We're not bitter. We went through how many years with a Democratic president. You didn't see us doing some of the things – whining and trying to impeach him – just because he's a Democrat.

"Used to, Democrats and Republicans could get along. They can't anymore."

And that leaves Jones in a precarious situation. He narrowly won the special election in 2017 to fill the seat vacated by Sen. Jeff Sessions, defeating scandal-plagued Roy Moore to become the rare Democrat to win a race in deep red Alabama.

Now Jones is up for re-election November. Does he support his Democrat colleagues in the House of Representatives who brought the impeachment charges and perhaps doom himself to defeat at the polls? Or does he reject the impeachment argument, vote to acquit Trump and perhaps preserve his re-election hopes?

That dilemma is why he’s been labeled as the one Democratic senator to watch in the impeachment trial.

"He really has nothing to lose by which way he votes because we're going to replace him in November anyway," said Brad Taylor, the executive director of the Madison County Republicans who attended the rally. "We firmly believe Doug Jones' term is coming to an end but we still want him to do the right thing and vote the way his constituents in Alabama would want him to vote instead of voting with (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi."

A message to Alabama’s junior senator from Trump supporters at downtown Huntsville rally. pic.twitter.com/fiquBiLAkI — Paul Gattis (@paul_gattis) January 24, 2020

Among the chants from Trump supporters: "Vote no Doug Jones. Vote no Doug Jones."

Another taunted him in anticipation of his defeat at the polls even as they asked for his support: "Hey hey, ho ho, vote no before you go."

Norman said such rallies probably wouldn't be an influence on Jones. But his vote is being watched.

"Probably not," she said of the rally swaying Jones' vote. "But it lets him know that there is a group of people that is going to get the word out there not to vote for him because he's going to vote for impeachment – if he does.

"If he votes not to impeach (Trump), that might sway me to vote for him. I mean, I really don’t know who I'm going to vote for for senator. I haven't really looked in to who I'm going to vote for. So I might vote for (Jones). If he votes against (impeachment), I could vote for him. I don’t vote straight Republican. I vote for who I think is going to do a good job."

Across Clinton Avenue, about a dozen Jones' supporters gathered with their own signs and their own chants. As Trump supporters chanted "four more years," the Jones' supporters responded, "in prison."

There were horns honking in support of Jones, too.

“We just feel like Doug Jones is a man of honor and from everything I’ve heard him say, he’s listening carefully to everything that’s being said by both sides,” said Robin Barr of Huntsville, one of the Jones backers. “I feel like he’ll vote his conscience and do the right thing. We just wanted to show that whoever might be looking from his office that that’s not the only point of view in Alabama. We appreciate that Alabama is a red state. We get it. But there are other viewpoints to be expressed.”