On Friday’s episode of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” incumbent U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) dismissed polling that showed him down 17 points to his GOP challenger Tommy Tuberville in November’s U.S. Senate election.

Jones questioned the poll’s methodology during an interview with APTV’s Don Dailey, saying they were not a “good barometer.”

He also argued former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville, his Republic opponent, had not been tested. He mentioned that Jeff Sessions, Tuberville’s Republican opponent in the GOP primary runoff, did not “hardly touch” him on particular issues.

“I don’t put any stock in those polls,” he said.” We’ve been following things for a really long time. Polls are really crazy. They were wrong in my race in 2017. They were wrong in the presidential race. That one in particular — that 17-point poll — is almost laughable because they started weighing past presidential votes, which is not a really good barometer at all of what’s going on on the ground today.”

“The fact is that Tommy Tuberville hasn’t been tested yet,” Jones continued. “Jeff Sessions didn’t hardly touch him on issues that I think are very important. We’re talking about leadership. We’re talking about the issues of the day — how you would deal with this pandemic. I’ll put my votes, my experience in the United States Senate up against his votes, his unemployment compensation of $5 million. I’ll put my record up against his any day of the week.”

@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly and host of Mobile’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on FM Talk 106.5.