Lott, Alexander Battle to the End

• By Erin P. Billings and Emily Pierce
• Roll Call Staff
• Nov. 15, 2006, Midnight

With this morning’s vote on the next Senate Minority Whip still nip-and-tuck, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Tuesday that he was using the last hours of campaigning to make sure Senators who already had committed to him were not switching to the insurgent campaign of Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.).