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To the dismay of Washington's Republican Senate leadership, Judge Roy Moore crushed Luther Strange in the runoff for the Republican nomination for the open Senate seat in Alabama, outpolling Strange by nine percentage points. Senate Republican leadership and President Trump stood behind Strange. The Republican establishment doesn't want their party branded with Moore's hardcore, outspoken Christian fundamentalism. They don't buy it, and they're afraid that it will spill over to challenges in upcoming Senate races and hurt their party. But the same flawed political conventional wisdom that led Republican leadership to back the wrong candidate in this race is operating...

When elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2000, Judge Roy Moore installed in his courthouse a monument with the Ten Commandments that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai carved into it. Told by a federal court his monument violated the separation of church and state, Moore refused to remove it and was suspended -- to become famous as "The Ten Commandments Judge." Roy Moore is now the Republican candidate for the Senate from Alabama, having routed Sen. Luther Strange, whom President Trump endorsed and campaigned for. Moore's primary win is a fire bell in the night for...

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Kayla Moore, the founder of the Foundation for Moral Law and wife of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, is endorsing Ted Cruz for president, she said today in a statement."Very rarely do I get involved in other political races," Moore said in a statement. "However, our nation is at a crossroads. If we do not choose wisely, we may forever lose our country. Many will say anything to get elected, but we must look at what the candidates have done. In studying and watching those running in this race - one stands for the same values I...

A flash survey conducted by Master Image, a Homewood political consulting firm, shows Donald Trump leading Alabama Republican voters, with a 36% preference. Candidates Marco Rubio (19%) and Ted Cruz (12%) rank second and third in the survey, but a large (17%) undecided voters will still determine which other candidate will gain delegates in Alabama. "Trump’s popularity in Alabama continues the trend we see elsewhere," said Joe Sanders, President and owner of Master Image, Inc. "Trump’s numbers in Alabama appear to be a few points lower than other southern states, but in line with what should happen on March 1,...

Rick Santorum is the winner of the Mississippi Republican presidential primary, Fox News projects. ORIGINAL STORY ... Rick Santorum has won the Alabama Republican presidential primary, Fox News projects, and is holding onto a narrow lead in Mississippi where the race is still too close to call. The victory in Alabama is a major boost for Santorum, a state in which he was