Donald Trump makes desperate final push to avoid humiliating defeat in Alabama Senate vote

Donald Trump has made a final push to avoid a humiliating defeat in the Alabama senate contest, where latest polls suggest the candidate he is backing is trailing by up to 11 points. As voting centres opened across the state for voters to cast their choice for the Republican candidate for the US senate, Mr Trump posted two early morning tweets, urging people to get behind the man has endorsed, Luther Strange. ‘Luther Strange has been shooting up in the Alabama polls since my endorsement.