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This is who the GOP wants representing them in the senate?
The GOP on the national level is recoiling from him in horror. But it appears the Alabama right-wingers are determined to live down to every single stereotype about their state.
Alabama’s senior U.S. Senator, Richard Shelby, is calling on the R state committee to revoke Roy Moore’s nomination. If that were to happen, any votes cast for Roy Moore would be invalidated and the GOP could endorse a write-in candidate.
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”If they pull him then they have another candidate. I said I’d like to see another candidate,” Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) told TPM when pressed on whether the state party should un-endorse Moore and back a write-in candidate.
The 21-member committee of local Republicans is the only group with any real power to kill Moore’s campaign. According to state law, it’s too late to pull Moore off the ballot, but if the state GOP withdraws its endorsement that disqualifies any votes for him and would let the party rally around a write-in.
The last 2 polls on RealClearPolitics has Moore up 10 and Moore up 6. He's most likely going to win unless he decides to withdraw.
Either way, it royally sucks for Republicans. Either the GOP will be tied to a child molester and have to answer questions about him every day in the Senate, or they are forced to expel him.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee Committee just commissioned a poll on the Alabama Senate Race that had Roy Moore trailing the Democrat by 12 points; 51-39.[/quote]
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The poll shows a dramatic turn against Moore in Alabama: In early October, a committee poll had him leading by 16 points, and a survey early this month had him up by 9 points. Moore’s favorability numbers also tanked, from 49 percent in early October to 35 percent in the NRSC’s latest Poll.
The GOP should find a way to run someone else at this point.
I have no idea if the allegations are true, but it reeks of DNC dirty politics. The filthy Democrats stole an Alaska Senate Seat for 6 years by ginning up false accusations about Ted Murkowski. Nobody was ever held accountable for that even though Murkowski was ultimately exonerated.
Democrats are vile creatures who will say and do anything to obtain and maintain power. The national leadership of that party has zero principles whatsoever and cannot be trusted. Anytime there is any smear against a Republican politician one month before an election, any person with a functioning brain should be highly skeptical given the DNC's track record of corruption, lies, and dirty tricks.
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The GOP should find a way to run someone else at this point.
I have no idea if the allegations are true, but it reeks of DNC dirty politics. The filthy Democrats stole an Alaska Senate Seat for 6 years by ginning up false accusations about Ted Murkowski. Nobody was ever held accountable for that even though Murkowski was ultimately exonerated.
Democrats are vile creatures who will say and do anything to obtain and maintain power. The national leadership of that party has zero principles whatsoever and cannot be trusted. Anytime there is any smear against a Republican politician one month before an election, any person with a functioning brain should be highly skeptical given the DNC's track record of corruption, lies, and dirty tricks.
Either way, it royally sucks for Republicans. Either the GOP will be tied to a child molester and have to answer questions about him every day in the Senate, or they are forced to expel him.
Either he is guilty and I hope he pays a price for it or he's a victim of a smear campaign for political purposes and I hope that gets exposed.
There are ways the Repubs can use to prevent Jones from winning, but they all have a lot of risk, and some may be political suicide if used.
One is for the Governor to declare the primary election invalid for reasons of moral turpitude. That would allow Luther Strange to keep the Senate seat safe in Republican hands for as long as necessary; 3 years at least.
But Kay Ivey, the current Governor, wasn't elected to the office. She assumed it as Lt. Governor after Bentley resigned when convicted of criminal charges. So Ivey is vulnerable if she decides to run for the office in her own right, as Moore won't be forgotten by his supporters.
The charge of moral turpitude can also be used by the Senate to deny Moore a seat. The Senate has refused to seat 16 others in the past, beginning in the late 1700s, but it hasn't been done for about 100 years now, and it's a more desperate measure, as it would force Alabama into holding another special election, nullifying the first. Going against the will of the voters is risky for them all, as it could possibly happen to them all in revenge.
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