Posted on 11/10/2017 12:25:15 PM PST by Kevin C
The Senate campaign arm of the Republican Party on Friday severed ties with Roy Moore, one day after the Washington Post reported that Moore had sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and pursued inappropriate relationships with several other teenagers while he was a district attorney in his 30s.
As the Daily Beast first reported, a joint fundraising committee supporting Moore’s election bid and the Republican Party filed paperwork Friday morning dropping the National Republican Senatorial Committee from its list of beneficiaries. The Alabama Republican Party and the Republican National Committee remain linked to the campaign.
Moore has strongly denied the allegations, calling them a “the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation.”
After supporting incumbent Luther Strange in the Sept. 26 special primary, the NRSC initially threw its weight behind Moore in the general election against Democrat Doug Jones.
“Our focus is always on keeping a strong Republican majority in the Senate, and that includes Alabama,” NRSC chairman Cory Gardner said in a statement at the time. “Roy Moore will be imperative to passing a conservative agenda, and we support him in keeping this seat in Republican hands.”
But Gardner changed his tune after the allegations against Moore became public, saying he should drop out of the election if they proved true. The committee’s decision to sever ties indicates they’ve heard enough to withdraw their support.
Alabama Republicans, meanwhile, have closed ranks around their candidate, with many claiming the allegations were a Democratic conspiracy, others diminishing their significance, and some even saying they’d still support Moore even if the allegations of sexual abuse were true.
“I would vote for Judge Moore because I wouldn’t want to vote for Doug,” Bibb County chairman Jerry Pow told Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star. “I’m not saying I support what he did.”
It’s doubtful that the older Alabamian voters will hold the age differences against Moore as it was once common.
Cut off all donations and only give to the candidate directly.
Yeah, I wouldn't want either of them running for US Senate either. And as I recall, when Jerry Lee Lewis married a teenage girl it wrecked his career.
Deep State trying to sink Roy Moore. They know he is electable.
Reminds me of President Trump when he was campaigning.
The Deep State wants their McConnell’s puppet in the spot.
That way the Deep State can use their Senator to go against President Trump.
That’s what this is. It’s a desperate move.
It’s a Hail-Mary-Pass in other words.
NRSC probably coordinated the accusers.
.......and is actually endorsing the Democrat Candidate by pushing Roy Moore over the cliff.
These scumbags in the media and GOPe have set him up with a fake narrative.
This is the chance for the people to break the will of the elites!
I wish he would have just said “None of it is true. None of it”.
Good folks in Alabama will not vote for Moore even more so than before. I know those folks and they know they are being played by the GOPe and Dims.
Should say WILL and NOT WILL NOT....above
Then he just buried himself. Shit. The swamp wins.
The idiots in question were likely in liberal state anyways. I am sure grown ups in Alabama can smell a stinker.
He categorically and unequivocally denied even knowing the 14 year old. There was no evasiveness in that. He also categorically denied any sexual misconduct.
check divorce records for her mother..read the file and dates compare to when moore was a da.
Judge Roy Moore Accuser Worked for Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden Campaigns, Part of the ‘Resistance’
https://thepolitistick.com/bombshell-roy-moore-accuser-worked-hillary-clinton-joe-biden-campaigns/
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