Roy Moore is out-Trumping the president: Will Republicans in Alabama reject Trump's endorsed...
FRIDAY, AUG 25, 2017 06:31 PM EDT
Roy Moore is out-Trumping the president: Will Republicans in Alabama reject Trump’s endorsed Senate candidate?
It's looking more and more likely that the controversial ex-judge will win GOP senate race to replace Jeff Sessions
MATTHEW SHEFFIELD
Roy Moore’s brand of politics was in many ways a forerunner for President Donald Trump. Loud, opinionated, and without a care as to whom he may offend, the former state judge has been a political figure in Alabama for decades, famous for his desire to post a giant Ten Commandments diorama in his court room and his refusal to obey the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Moore’s Christian nationalist cultural populism is going to enable him to become the GOP’s choice in a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
With Republican voters primed by Trump to embrace a white Christian identity politics, Moore’s old-time blend of preaching and politicking looks like it has more power than the president’s endorsement of Moore’s rival, Luther Strange, the man who was appointed to fill the seat temporarily until the general election in November.
Moore has led most polls throughout the race. In the Aug. 15 first round of the primary, he finished with 39 percent of the vote, 8 points higher than Strange. The race is headed into a second round of balloting Sept. 26 because Moore was unable to win more than 50 percent of the vote.
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