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Graham rues
Trump's support for
Roy Moore
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/26/politics/donald-trump-doug-jones-tweet/index.html
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- "Jones would be a disaster!" Trump tweeted Sunday morning
- "If you think winning with Roy Moore is going to be easy for the Republican party, you're mistaken," Sen. Lindsey Graham said.
Washington (CNN)Sen.
Lindsey Graham bemoaned President Donald Trump's support for Alabama
Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore on Sunday, calling the move a
lose-lose situation.
"If
he wins, we get the baggage of him winning, and it becomes a story
every day about whether or not you believe the women or Roy Moore,
should he stay in the Senate, should he be expelled?" Graham said on
CNN's "State of the Union." "If you lose, you give the Senate seat to a
Democrat at a time where we need all the votes we can get.
"The
moral of the story is don't nominate someone like Roy Moore who can
actually lose the seat any other Republican could win," the South
Carolina Republican told anchor Dana Bash. "And what I would tell
President Trump: if you think winning with Roy Moore is going to be easy
for the Republican Party, you're mistaken."
Trump,
who has all but endorsed Moore in the special election to fill the seat
vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, slammed Moore's Democratic
opponent, Doug Jones, in a tweet early Sunday morning.
"The
last thing we need in Alabama and the U.S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi
puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military
and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES
TO THE SKY. Jones would be a disaster!" Trump tweeted.
Many Republicans, including
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, have
disavowed Moore, pulling their support for his candidacy after several
women accused Moore of pursing sexual relationships with them when they
were in their teens and he was in his 30s.
One
woman alleges Moore touched her inappropriately when she was 14.
Another woman has accused Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was
16. The legal age of consent in Alabama is 16.
Moore
has repeatedly denied the allegations, which Trump has emphasized when
asked about the former Alabama chief justice's candidacy.
"He
denies it. Look, he denies it," Trump said last week. "If you look at
all the things that have happened over the last 48 hours. He totally
denies it. He says it didn't happen. And you know, you have to listen to
him also."
Moore wasn't the
President's first choice for the nomination. Trump backed Luther
Strange, who was appointed to finish out Sessions' term by then-Gov.
Robert Bentley, in the primary, moving to support Moore only after
Strange lost. Trump reminded his followers of that fact in a tweet
Sunday morning.
"I endorsed Luther
Strange in the Alabama Primary," Trump wrote. "He shot way up in the
polls but it wasn't enough. Can't let Schumer/Pelosi win this race.
Liberal Jones would be BAD!"
Trump's tweets on Sunday
aren't his first swipe at Jones. Last week, he told reporters on the
White House lawn, "We don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat,
Jones. I've looked at his record. It's terrible on crime. It's terrible
on the border. It's terrible on military. I can tell you for a fact we
do not need somebody who's going to be bad on crime, bad on borders, bad
with the military, bad for the Second Amendment."
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