Amanda Terkel writes for the Huffington Post that Democrat Doug Jones has a chance to win the Alabama Senate seat once held by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions – but only if the national party keeps its distance as he tailors his far left positions to voters in that red state:

Democrats are salivating at the chance to pick up a Senate seat in the Deep South. When Jeff Sessions vacated the position to become attorney general, it seemed safe to assume that his successor would be a fellow Republican. Alabama is, after all, where Donald Trump defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by nearly 30 percentage points in 2016.

But now Republicans are stuck with Roy Moore, a nominee who has been accused of pursuing a number of women when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. And Democrats have a real shot at winning the Dec. 12 election with their candidate, Doug Jones ― but only, they say, if the national party stays away, or at least stays quiet.