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President Trump said Friday that Roy Moore, the challenger to Sen Luther Strange for the Republican Senate nomination in Alabama, would be more likely to lose the general election to the Democratic candidate. "I have to say this-Luther will definitely win. Roy has a very good chance of not winning-in the general election" Trump said during a rally in Huntsville, Ala on Friday in honor of Strange ahead of Tuesday's GOP primary runoff......

From the Washington Post: Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Republican backed by the Tea Party movement, suggested that the president was misled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whom the crowd repeatedly booed. Jan Morgan, a spokeswoman for the Citizens for Trump grass-roots group, said “the president was ill-advised when he made his decision.” And former Alaska governor Sarah Palin accused the swamp — which is what Trump likes to call the Washington establishment — of trying to overpower the president. “The forgotten man and woman in this country, they stood up, and we beat the swamp. But,...

Republican senate candidates Roy Moore and Luther Strange are getting ready to debate. The debate is set to take place Thursday, September 21 at 5:30 p.m. at the RSA Activity Center on Dexter Avenue in downtown Montgomery.

"hold them by the nose, kick them in the a** and give them hell all the time" General George S. Patton Jr. speech to soldiers during World War II General Patton never got the chance to run for public office, but another West Point graduate who served in the Vietnam War has run for public office and been elected multiple times. Now he wants to be the next US Senator from Alabama. Roy Moore went into action......... He called for deployment of the Army to the southern border while the details of "the Wall" are worked out. Moore, a former...

Donald Trump's visit to Alabama on Friday night to rally the troops for Republican Sen. Luther Strange figures to be a jubilant homecoming, as the state served as something of a launching pad for his presidential campaign. But by Wednesday morning, he could be feeling a bit of a hangover. A Republican primary runoff to fill the U.S. Senate seat held by now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions might be headed for an upset, as controversial Judge Roy Moore leads in the polls against Strange, who was appointed to the upper chamber in February. A Moore victory would deliver a gut punch...

In a strange twist of fate, one of the key figures who helped bring about this transfer of jobs out of Alabama is now campaigning for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Jeff Sessions. Even stranger still, his campaign ads promise that he will “Kill Unfair Trade Deals.” Lobbying for the Central American free trade pact was a very lucrative job for Luther Strange. But for thousands of Alabamians it was far more devastating than that 1902 fire that nearly destroyed Alex City. A senior adviser to the campaign of Judge Roy Moore, the conservative frontrunner for the U.S. Senate...

Roy Moore’s close friend says the Republican establishment is right to be concerned with the Alabama GOP primary candidate leading the closely watched special Senate election against Trump-backed Senator Luther Strange. Dean Young, who calls Moore his “best friend”, says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “and all the establishment are going crazy” because, should the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice defeat Strange in next week’s runoff, Moore’s fiery social conservative brand will spell trouble for the McConnell-Beltway establishment — which has sunk millions of dollars into his opponent. From the Washington Examiner‘s David Drucker: Young said flatly that...

A partner in the Alabama law firm whose members and political action committee donated $28,000 to the 2017 Senate campaign of Senator Luther Strange (R-AL) represented a real estate development company in which Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) has a 13 percent interest in a sweetheart deal that put over $100,000 of sales tax revenue paid by customers at the McGowin Park retail center in Mobile, Alabama in the pocket of the junior senator from Tennessee in 2016.

According to Alabama Today, Luther Strange is a partial owner of Sunbelt EB-5 Regional Center.  And not a small stake either – he owns one-sixth of the firm, which allows foreign investors to ‘buy’ residency if they invest $500,000 into American job-creating projects.  This program has been criticized by no less a personage than Dianne Feinstein, is oversubscribed and abounds with fraud.  According to the State Department, Chinese investors make up over 80% of the EB-5 visa recipients. From Sunbelt’s FAQ page: An EB5 investor Visa is suitable for people from all walks of life: professionals, business people, persons wanting to...

"We are in the grip of a soft totalitarianism which is no less deadly for being soft. Instead of threatening people with prison for having the wrong opinions, it threatens them with unemployment. If we actually had labor camps and midnight arrests, and state censors sitting in newspaper offices and TV studios, people might take notice what was going on. As it is, they just wonder why everything gets worse and nobody does anything about it" Peter Hitchens "Mail on Sunday" column September 10, 2017 What Peter Hitchens writes about from his own vantage point in the UK applies to...

When he was interviewed on "60 Minutes" recently, former White House strategist Steve Bannon cited Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a great enemy of President Trump, even greater than House Speaker Paul Ryan. McConnell's Super PAC and allied interests have relentlessly dumped millions into Alabama to fuel a massive media campaign to smear Judge Roy Moore and prevent him from winning the runoff election next Tuesday. One ad claims Moore does not support President Trump's notion of a wall on the southern border, even though Moore has publicly said he supports President Trump including "the Wall". As we all...

I will be in Huntsville, Alabama, on Saturday night to support Luther Strange for Senate. "Big Luther" is a great guy who gets things done!

Update 7:38p.m.: Now the Moore campaign is walking back its previous statement. They have agreed to a debate with Strange sans moderator. "We are glad Luther Strange has agreed to our challenge of an honest and open debate, with no conditions," the Moore campaign said. A Moore campaign spokeswoman said the details haven't been worked out yet......... Original story: Senator Luther Strange campaign has agreed to hold a debate with challenger Roy Moore without a moderator, although the incumbent senator slammed his opponent for having "ridiculous demands."...... Earlier Wednesday, Moore said he would only have a debate with Strange styled...

The special Alabama Senate primary is at once the most exciting and the most boring spectacle in politics. Depending on who's keeping score, the contest between Judge Roy Moore and incumbent Sen. Luther Strange will be either blowout or barnburner, slaughter or slugfest. New polling from Montgomery-based Southeast Research suggests the latter. With 19 days before Election Day, according to the poll, Strange is trailing Moore by 16 points: 52 to 36 percent.

Roy Moore and Sen. Luther Strange are locked in a neck-and-neck battle in their runoff race in Alabama, according to a poll released Tuesday that also shows President Trump is very popular among likely runoff voters. Mr. Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, holds a 47 percent to 45 percent edge over Mr. Strange in the survey from Harper Polling of 600 likely runoff voters that carries a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. The runoff race is slated for Sept. 26. Close to four in 10 poll respondents said they want a candidate...

President Trump “is considering backing away from Sen. Luther Strange in a heated Republican primary runoff in Alabama, according to multiple Republicans close to the White House, underscoring the deteriorating relationship between the president and the Senate GOP,” the Washington Post reports.

Luther Strange could have been campaigning for U.S. Senate as Big Luther Strange, Champion of the People. Instead, Big Luther has shrunk into a weird hybrid Washington Swamp/Trump mini-me candidate, scrambling to keep his political career afloat. Going into the U.S. Senate GOP primary runoff, one poll shows Roy Moore with a substantial lead over Strange. Another poll - a poll bought and paid for by Mitch McConnell's Senate Leadership Fund, a group that's already invested $8 million into the Strange primary campaign - says the race between Moore and Strange is a dead heat.  Big Luther's poll numbers are...

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Alabama’s famous “Ten Commandments judge” Roy Moore reveals shocking new developments from his campaign for U.S. Senate. The frontrunner in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race with 39 percent of the vote, Moore alleges that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to steal the election by letting Democrats vote in Alabama’s Republican primary. “Well that’s exactly what their strategy is. That’s what they’re talking about. I wish the people of Alabama knew that. I wish the people of Alabama knew that McConnell and them were using the Democrats to come into the Republican...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Republican voters here put a bitter Senate campaign into overtime, forcing Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) into a runoff with conservative jurist Roy Moore for the right to represent Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s old seat. Strange was endorsed by President Trump, the National Rifle Association and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s super PAC, which spent $2.5 million on TV ads to boost him in Tuesday’s primary. That helped push him past Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), saving national Republicans from an embarrassment in a unique mid-summer election marked by low turnout. Democrats, who have not won a Senate race...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Sen. Luther Strange and former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore are headed to a Republican primary runoff to fill the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The two men, who represent different factions within the Alabama Republican Party, will face off in a Sept. 26 runoff after neither captured more than 50 percent of the vote.