India, May 20 -- Doug Jones, a longtime Alabama Democrat and former US senator, is projected by NBC News to win the 2026 Democratic nomination for governor. He will face Republican Tommy Tuberville in the general election.

Doug Jones is an American attorney, former US senator from Alabama, and the projected winner of the 2026 Democratic primary for Alabama governor.

Jones is best known for prosecuting two Ku Klux Klan members involved in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, Jones served in the Senate from 2018 to 2021 before losing re-election to Republican Tommy Tuberville.

Jones was born on May 4, 1954, in Fairfield, Alabama. His father worked for US Steel, while his mother was a homemaker. He earned a political science degree from th...