“Moore was a flawed candidate no one down here liked anyway.”
He won the primary. Someone must have like him. (I’m in Alabama, too.) The press and the GOPe successfully sunk him. Without the baseless accusations and non-stop negative press he would be our senator.
The GOP primary was a three-way race between Luther Strange (appointed incumbent), Roy Moore, and Mo Brooks. In the primary, Strange went after Mo Brooks, figuring that a run-off election between him and Moore would go his way.
But in the run-off, due to his association with the former disgraced governor, Strange lost to Moore, who was still very popular with the conservatives in Alabama.
Then came the election. Moore ran a poor campaign, the smears came in, and Doug Jones lied about his positions on nearly everything. And enough moderates and liberals were tired of Moore, so they voted for that lying weasel Doug Jones.
I believe had the old codger Roy Moore not followed his ego and ran for the Senate, Mo Brooks would be the Senator from Al. YMMV