GOP’S McCONNELL TELLS MOORE TO STEP ASIDE

WASHINGTON 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.