Senate seat, becoming Alabama’s first Democratic senator in 21 years. ..…

Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Doug Jones of Alabama, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Dianne Feinstein of California. Feinstein is the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. The others are Republican targets for the confirmation vote who come from Trump-won..…

The population of Mississippi is 57 percent white and 38 percent Black, and its delegation of two senators and four members of Congress are white Republicans, except for one Black Democrat in the House. Alabama is two-thirds white and 27 percent Black, and six of its seven House members..…