MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — In a state that has long been reliably Republican, Roy Moore faces an uphill battle in winning over skeptical voters to take back the Alabama Senate seat he lost two years ago amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls. With GOP leaders including President Donald …
Roy Moore, the controversial Republican judge who lost a 2017 Senate race in Alabama, will announce Thursday whether he plans to run again in 2020. Moore’s wife, Kayla, confirmed the Thursday announcement in a statement to POLITICO and said details would be forthcoming. Earlier Tuesday, POLITICO had obtained a copy …
The controversial former judge says the president ‘doesn’t control’ Alabama voters, and he can win despite Trump’s opposition. A defiant Roy Moore brushed aside Donald Trump’s warning not to run for Senate again, telling POLITICO on Wednesday that Alabama voters are capable of deciding for themselves whether he’s fit for …
Roy Moore wants a rematch against Sen. Doug Jones. And Donald Trump Jr. isn’t having it. Moore, the Republican who fell short in his 2017 race against Jones (D-Ala.) amid allegations of sexual misconduct in the 1970s, sent a pair of tweets on Tuesday that are the strongest signal yet …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama officials on Thursday unhesitatingly pushed aside a legal challenge from Roy S. Moore and certified Doug Jones as the winner of this month’s Senate election. The action, during a brief meeting at the State Capitol, was essentially the state’s final step before the seating of the …
Moore, an Alabama Republican, lost the December 12 election to Democratic candidate Doug Jones by more than 20,000 votes. He has refused to concede. Roy Moore says he wants Alabama’s secretary of state to delay certification of the state’s Senate race results, pending an investigation into what his campaign called …
The White House knows the midterm election will probably be bad. Behind the scenes, top aides are scrambling to avoid the worst. A few weeks before Alabama’s special Senate election, President Donald Trump’s handpicked Republican National Committee leader, Ronna Romney McDaniel, delivered a two-page memo to White House chief of …
A Senate election in Alabama. A Republican tax bill moving through Congress. Violent protests in the Middle East following U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. What could these widely disparate matters have in common, besides heavy news coverage? It turns out that they all have enabled President …
PASADENA, Calif. — They all decided they wanted to become preachers and enrolled in seminary to learn how to spread the Gospel. They chose one of the most prominent evangelical seminaries in the country. Yet here they were, these four young preachers-in-training from the Midwest, the South and the Northwest, hanging …
Alabama may have just elected its first Democratic senator in 25 years, but the legislators in the chamber who feel most emboldened may sit on the Republican side of the aisle. By narrowing the Republican majority, Doug Jones’s arrival further empowers Republicans who are willing to break with the party to …
He was twice removed as Alabama’s chief justice, and twice returned to run again. What’s to stop him now? Roy Moore won’t sit in the U.S. Senate — or be expelled from it. I would like nothing more than to write his political eulogy. But I can’t — not yet. The truth is, it’s too …
Republican Roy Moore is defeated in a huge blow for President Donald Trump and his former strategist Steve Bannon. Democrat Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore in a special election earthquake Tuesday, flipping an Alabama Senate seat to Democrats for the first time in a quarter-century and dealing a huge political …