GOP’S McCONNELL TELLS MOORE TO STEP ASIDE
The Senate’s top Republican said Monday that GOP candidate Roy Moore, pictured, should quit his Alabama race amid allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl decades ago. Moore fired back that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the one who should leave, saying he “has failed conservatives.”
The crossfire escalated a GOP civil war over Moore’s Senate candidacy in a Dec. 12 special election. The Washington Post reported that Moore was 32 when he is alleged to have initiated sexual contact with the 14-year-old and pursued other teenage girls at around that time.
“I believe the women,” McConnell said Monday and said flatly that Moore should step aside for another GOP candidate.