The GOP Senate candidate was always divisive. Now he’s grown toxic.
By Patricia Murphy
ANNISTON, Alabama—B.L. Shirley is a Republican woman from a Republican county who always—always—votes
Republican. And yet, on a windy, grey morning last weekend, the
Talladega, Alabama, retiree found herself in, of all places, a
Democrat’s campaign office, wondering just what she could do to defeat
the GOP candidate running for a seat in the U.S. Senate from her state.
“Roy
Moore,” she said, when asked why she would go canvassing for Democrat
Doug Jones before the special election on Dec. 12. “I think Roy Moore is
an impostor. I am a Christian and I don’t want to be counted in his
camp. He’s a divisive person.”
If Jones is to pull off a victory,
it will be because women like Shirley knocked on doors, called
neighbors, and worked to convince otherwise skeptical voters that his
opponent is fundamentally unfit for the office he’s seeking. A few weeks
ago, that seemed like a tall order. As the election nears, it no longer
appears quite so improbable.
Allegations that Moore routinely
pursued teenage girls and in some cases assaulted them when he was a
single man in his thirties have caused Republican voters in Alabama to
reassess their options. Some have decided to rally around the nominee.
But others have recoiled, leaving Moore in real risk of losing his
attempt to take over the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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