As Republicans gear up for a grueling primary runoff in the Alabama special election Senate race, Democratic candidate Doug Jones has the race to himself. And Democrats see Jones as their best hope for victory in a ruby-red state.

But that’s a tall order for Jones.

President Donald Trump won the state by 28 points in November. A Democrat has not won a Senate seat in Alabama since Sen. Richard C. Shelby was elected to a second term in 1992 — and he switched to the GOP two years later.

Jones has until the Dec. 12 election to make his case to Yellowhammer State voters, and Democrats know it will be tough.

“You need that perfect storm to develop,” said Zac McCrary, a Democratic pollster based in Montgomery. “You need virtually all of this to break the right way.”