Montgomery, AL – Embattled Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore led his Democratic opponent by six percentage points in a CBS News poll released on Sunday, with most Alabama Republicans saying the allegations of sexual misconduct against him are false.
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Moore was leading Democrat Doug Jones 49 to 43 percent among voters likely to cast ballots in the Dec. 12 special election, CBS said. The contest was even among registered voters, it said.
Republican lawmakers in Washington, including Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, have distanced themselves from Moore and called for him to step down from the race after he was accused by several women of sexual assault and misconduct when they were teenagers and he was in his early 30s. Reuters has not been able to independently verify the allegations.
But McConnell said on Sunday that if Moore is elected, the Senate will swear him in and then the Senate ethics committee would decide whether to investigate the allegations.
“We’ll swear in whoever’s elected and see where we are at that point,” McConnell said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“We can’t stop him from being seated,” said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who was also interviewed on CBS. “If there was an (ethics) investigation and all six members of the committee said they believe he was a child molester, that would be a problem.”
According to the CBS poll, 71 percent of Alabama Republicans say the allegations against Moore are false, and believe that Democrats and the media are behind the accusations.
Another poll a day earlier had Jones barely ahead. The Washington Post-Schar School poll said Jones’ support among likely voters stood at 50 percent, versus Moore’s 47 percent.
President Donald Trump originally backed Moore’s opponent in the Republican primary, Senator Luther Strange. But Trump has since defended Moore, noting Moore has denied allegations of sexual misconduct. The president says he does not want Moore’s Democratic opponent to win.
Trump is slated to travel to a rally in Pensacola, Florida on Friday — a city just across the state line from Alabama — just days ahead of the Alabama election. The timing and location gives Trump an opportunity to express support for Moore.
Republicans hold a slim 52-48 majority in the Senate and are eager to maintain their advantage to advance Trump’s legislative agenda on taxes, healthcare and other priorities.
It is a breakdown of morality, a return of a fanatic christian and danger to a democracy where Jews thrived
I would bet he will win.
#3 How odd. I would have thought the Nazis in Virginia chanting “The Jews will not replace us” were a threat to Judaism. You know, the people the President supports.
People just don’t believe the fake news any longer. This story has way too many holes in it.
We dont need Moore cuz he likes Israel. Jews don’t benefit from this. He just needs to stay cuz u cant decide who gets special treatment. Theyre all lowlifes so y stop by him? Go Moore!
R”L. We’ve reached a new low. Supposedly religious people debating whether or not intamicy between a 35 year old man in a position of authority and a 14 year old child should disqualify the man from serving in the United States Senate.
Nebach on us, nebach on our children. Electing tax cutting Republicans is now more important to some supposedly religious people than common decency.
What sad times we live in where frum jews will support a candidate of such low morals simply because he’s a republican. Then again, they supported a menuval like Trump for the same reason.
#11 let us not argue if the President supports Nazis. Surely we can all agree the Nazis support the President.
To “Educated” Archy”- You should really be known as the UNEDUCATED Archy. In fact, Nazis have physically harmed Jews in the USA. In 1977, a Nazi sniper opened fire on a St. Louis Shul, killing a Jew leaving a Bar Mitzvah, and wounded at least one other person. The Nazi was finally executed only a few years ago. In 2011, an 89 year old Nazi came into the Holocaust Museum in D.C. with a rifle, and killed a security guard. He was shot by other guards, and eventually died. In 1999, another Nazi came into a JCC in L.A. and shot and seriously wounded several Jews, including a young child. In 2014, a Nazi came to a suburb of Kansas City, and murdered several people at a JCC, and a Jewish nursing home, who he assumed were Jews. He was convicted and sentenced to death. In 1986, another Nazi shot and killed a Chassidic man, in Pittsburgh, who was leaving a Shul; that Nazi convicted, because he bragged about what he did. However, he only received 20 years, because the jury convicted him of a lesser charge. There was a Jewish radio talk show host in Denver, who was deliberated targeted and shot dead by Nazis. The point that I’m making is Nazis are a still a threat to Jews in the USA.