Republican Moore embraces Trump message on eve of Alabama election

[webfact]

Republican Moore embraces Trump message on eve of Alabama election

By Andy Sullivan

 

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Judge Roy Moore speaks during a campaign event in Fairhope, Alabama, U.S., December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachma

 

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore touted his ties to President Donald Trump on Monday in the final stretch of an election campaign in Alabama in which Moore has battled accusations of sexual misconduct toward teenagers.

 

On the eve of Tuesday's election, Moore, a conservative Christian and former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, was holding a rally in Midland City, Alabama, where he was to be joined by Steve Bannon, Trump's close ally and former chief strategist.

 

In an echo of Trump's 2016 campaign pledge to get rid of Washington insiders, Moore labelled his Monday rally a "Drain the Swamp" event. Bannon, an executive at the right-wing Breitbart News site, has been one of Moore’s staunchest supporters.

 

Moore, 70, will face off against Democrat Doug Jones, 63, a former U.S. attorney who is hoping to pull off an upset victory in deeply conservative Alabama, which has sent only Republicans to the U.S. Senate for the past 20 years.

 

Moore has been accused by several women of pursuing them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s, including one woman who said he tried to initiate sexual contact with her when she was 14. Moore has denied any misconduct. Reuters has not independently verified any of the accusations.

 

The Alabama race has divided Trump's Republican Party.

 

The sexual misconduct accusations prompted many senior Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to distance themselves from Moore.

 

But Trump has endorsed Moore and taped a "robo-call" that the campaign has rolled out urging voters to back the Republican candidate in order to help support the president's agenda.

 

Democrats also made robo-calls using two of their party's own big guns - former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden.

 

A Fox News Poll conducted on Thursday and released on Monday put Jones ahead of Moore, with Jones potentially taking 50 percent of the vote and Moore 40 percent. Fox said 8 percent of voters were undecided and 2 percent supported another candidate.

 

An average of recent polls by the RealClearPolitics website showed Moore ahead by a slight margin of 2.2 percentage points.

 

Jones has cast himself as a "voice for reason" for Alabama and has touted a record that includes prosecuting former Ku Klux Klan members responsible for the 1963 bombing of a black church in Birmingham in which four girls were killed.

 

'RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY'

 

Jones has spent the past week rallying African-Americans, the most reliably Democratic voters in the state, and hammering Moore in television ads. He has told supporters that his campaign is a chance to be on the "right side of history for the state of Alabama."

 

If Jones wins on Tuesday, Republicans would control the Senate by a slim 51-49 margin, giving Democrats much-needed momentum ahead of the November 2018 congressional elections, when control of both chambers of Congress will be at stake.

 

Moore's campaign has cast Jones as a liberal out of step with Alabama voters, seizing on the Democrat's support of abortion rights.

 

Many Republican officials in Alabama, including Governor Kay Ivey, say they will vote for Moore. But the state’s senior Republican senator, Richard Shelby, said he did not vote for Moore and instead backed a write-in candidate on his absentee ballot, telling CNN that Alabama "deserves better" than Moore.

 

Moore, who was twice removed from the state Supreme Court for refusing to abide by federal law, may find a chilly reception in Washington if he wins. Republican leaders have said.

 

Moore could face an ethics investigation if Alabama voters send him to the U.S. Senate.

 

Democrats have signalled they may use Moore’s election to tar Republicans as insensitive to women’s concerns at a time when allegations of sexual harassment have caused many prominent men working in politics, entertainment, media and business to lose their jobs.

 

Allegations of sexual misconduct prompted the resignations last week of three lawmakers - Democratic Senator Al Franken, Democratic Representative John Conyers and Republican Representative Trent Franks.

 

(Additional reporting by Zachary Goelman in Birmingham, Ala. and Lisa Lambert and Lucia Mutikani in Washington; Editing by Caren Bohan and Peter Cooney)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-12

[Becker]

One hypocritical and amoral sack of pus embracing another one.

Edited December 12, 2017 by Becker

[mamypoko]

cue the banjo music

[Jingthing]

Randy Rainbow pipes in --

 

 

[klauskunkel]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Republican Moore embraces Trump

and then they got a room

[Jingthing]

Just now, klauskunkel said:

and then they got a room

Don't forget the rubber sheets. 

[klauskunkel]

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Don't forget the rubber sheets. 

first they'll take the dentures out...

[Jingthing]

trump is a national DISGRACE and a deep embarrassment to all decent Americans. Moore will probably win though. That's Alabama, y'all! 

Edited December 12, 2017 by Jingthing

[Becker]

22 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

trump is a national DISGRACE and a deep embarrassment to all decent Americans. Moore will probably win though. That's Alabama, y'all! 

Which might very well be a good thing:

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/11/politics/democrats-roy-moore-alabama-senate/index.html

[Briggsy]

For Moore not to win, it would need to be an enormous swing. I see him winning 58-42. Both parties will take positives from that.

[Jingthing]

It would indeed be a historically AMAZING upset if Jones can pull it out as the election system is totally rigged there by the white racists that dominate Alabama politics.

 

How is that you may ask?

Racially motivated strict voter I.D. laws and then the republican controlled state closed the DMV offices in heavily black areas of the state so that it would be much harder for black voters to even get the I.D. that they need to vote.

 

 

Edited December 12, 2017 by Jingthing

[attrayant]

And there was that one time Moore went to a child prostitute brothel, but it was totally by accident.

 

That has the same ring of truth to it as "I smoked but didn't inhale".

[Thaidream]

I can't think of a worse candidate for the  Senate and a potential Senator. The man was twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court for refusing to follow the law. He has been accused by several women of pursuing them in local malls, one as young as age 14.

 

If this man wins it shows just how backward Alabama is as a state and if he is seated in the senate it shows  just how out of touch the Republicans are with the vast majority of the American public. In Trump's eyes , Moore is probably a candidate for the US Supreme Court.

 

Every time I think it can't possibly get any worse, it does.

[milwaukeeboy]

I hope Moore wins.

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, milwaukeeboy said:

I hope Moore wins.

I feel your shame.

[attrayant]

1 hour ago, milwaukeeboy said:

I hope Moore wins.

 

Why do you hate the citizens of Alabama so much?

[Thaidream]

Anyone who supports Roy Moore supports a possible

 

-racist

-homophobe

-stalker

-liar

 

The truth hurts.

[farcanell]

2 hours ago, Thaidream said:

I can't think of a worse candidate for the  Senate and a potential Senator. The man was twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court for refusing to follow the law. He has been accused by several women of pursuing them in local malls, one as young as age 14.

 

If this man wins it shows just how backward Alabama is as a state and if he is seated in the senate it shows  just how out of touch the Republicans are with the vast majority of the American public. In Trump's eyes , Moore is probably a candidate for the US Supreme Court.

 

Every time I think it can't possibly get any worse, it does.

Is this where hillbillies come from?

[Jingthing]

Is this where hillbillies come from?

More like lowlandsbillies.


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[riclag]

2 hours ago, milwaukeeboy said:

I hope Moore wins.

Is that because of the liberals constant demonizing  and obstructive  resistance to what American's have voted for? Is change that important,to cast your values of decency aside ?

Edited December 12, 2017 by riclag

[Jingthing]

Moore interviewed by a member of his dating pool. Truly cringeworthy. But load it up on youtube and read the COMMENTS. Now, that's southern fried ENTERTAINMENT.

 

 

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, riclag said:

Is that because of the liberals constant demonizing  and obstructive  resistance to what American's have voted for? Is change that important,to cast your values of decency aside ?

trump has majorities in the house and the senate. What obstruction? So what did people vote for? Tax relief for the middle class? FAIL! Better and cheaper health care for all? FAIL. 

[ilostmypassword]

5 minutes ago, bedouin1990 said:

My, the Leftards and gays are really braying today. Sounds much like what the street hippies have been screaming ever since the election. They just cannot accept the interruption of the progressive march to socialism. I did not vote for either the Pompadour or the Hag. Wouldn't vote for Moore either. BOTH parties should stop throwing rocks over sexual abuse, for they are equally guilty. Remember Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, Franken, Jessie Jackson, Conyors.

 

I think we would be better served to focus on men who abuse women instead of making it a political party issue. Like it or not, Trump won and we must live with that a while. Ad hominem arguments solve nothing but only pour gasoline on the fire.

another I-don't-like-Trump-but-(I-really-do) You kind of give yourself away when you use words like "Leftards". 

[ilostmypassword]

2 hours ago, riclag said:

Is that because of the liberals constant demonizing  and obstructive  resistance to what American's have voted for? Is change that important,to cast your values of decency aside ?

You mean like people in Congress voting against programs Trump supports? Like his massively popular health and tax bills?

[Jingthing]

26 minutes ago, bedouin1990 said:

My, the Leftards and gays are really braying today. Sounds much like what the street hippies have been screaming ever since the election. They just cannot accept the interruption of the progressive march to socialism. I did not vote for either the Pompadour or the Hag. Wouldn't vote for Moore either. BOTH parties should stop throwing rocks over sexual abuse, for they are equally guilty. Remember Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, Franken, Jessie Jackson, Conyors.

 

I think we would be better served to focus on men who abuse women instead of making it a political party issue. Like it or not, Trump won and we must live with that a while. Ad hominem arguments solve nothing but only pour gasoline on the fire.

Leftards? Seriously? 

[lannarebirth]

4 hours ago, farcanell said:

Is this where hillbillies come from?

Hillbillies come from Appalachia. 

[ilostmypassword]

Just now, lannarebirth said:

Hillbillies come from Appalachia. 

And they don't outsiders calling them that any more than African Americans like being called the "n" word. The nasty word you shouldn't use for white alabamians (although not just for them) is the "r" word.

[lannarebirth]

1 minute ago, ilostmypassword said:

And they don't outsiders calling them that any more than African Americans like being called the "n" word. The nasty word you shouldn't use for white alabamians (although not just for them) is the "r" word.

I considered using the "r" word but truthfully they can be found in each of the 50 states not just the Deep South.

[ilostmypassword]

Anyway, there were a couple of interesting articles (at least to me) about why the polls have been all over the place for this election. 

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-these-alabama-polls/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/upshot/alabama-election-polling-roy-moore.html

[farcanell]

8 minutes ago, lannarebirth said:

I considered using the "r" word but truthfully they can be found in each of the 50 states not just the Deep South.

R word... redneck?

 

i always thought that term came from wood choppers who tied a leather strop around the tree and behind the neck to stop from falling off that plank thing, whilst still having a free axe swing.

 

red neck from the chaffing