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Dulcinea

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Fri Jun 21, 2019, 08:26 AM Jun 2019

Trump Says Alabama's Roy Moore Can't Win, But Moore Is Running Again Anyway

To the disdain of national Republicans and against the advice of President Trump, controversial Alabama Judge Roy Moore announced Thursday he will run again for the Senate in 2020, after losing a winnable race for the GOP as allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against teen girls surfaced from decades ago.

Those multiple accusations — which Moore has stridently denied — led to the Christian nationalist candidate losing the December 2017 special election to Democrat Doug Jones by 1.5 percentage points, just over a year after Trump carried Alabama by 28 points.

But in a news conference in Montgomery, which opened with both prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, the former Alabama chief justice was defiant, blaming "false flag" attacks from Democrats spreading misinformation for his narrow loss.

Instead, he said, the multiple accusations from women that Moore had pursued them romantically as teenagers when he was in his 30s had "little impact" on the outcome, and Washington Republicans were too afraid of his staunch conservatism and adherence to the Constitution.

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734499682/trump-says-alabamas-roy-moore-can-t-win-but-he-s-running-again-anyway

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Trump Says Alabama's Roy Moore Can't Win, But Moore Is Running Again Anyway (Original Post) Dulcinea Jun 2019 OP
I don't know if he gets through the primary, but if he does, he probably wins the general bearsfootball516 Jun 2019 #1

bearsfootball516

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1. I don't know if he gets through the primary, but if he does, he probably wins the general
Fri Jun 21, 2019, 08:30 AM
Jun 2019

There were hundreds of thousands of Alabama Republicans who stayed home in 2017. With Trump leading the ticket next year, they’ll go to the polls and vote straight party.

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