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Ala. race down to wire as Bam pushes vs. accused perv Moore
ELECTION DAY in Alabama has arrived, and polls show the hotly contested Roy Moore-Doug Jones race could be a blowout. For somebody.
A Fox News poll released Monday shows Jones trouncing controversial former judge Moore (photo inset, below), while an Emerson College poll shows the accused child molester Moore whupping Jones by nine points.
A third poll Monmouth University released Monday has the race tied at 46% each, with 2% going for write-in candidates and 8% undecided.
All three polls peg undecided voters at 6% to 8% — something the pols and their surrogates were working hard to change.
Republican Moore was using robocalls from President Trump and holding a rally with ousted White House adviser Stephen Bannon, as Democrat Jones (photo inset, right) campaigned in a diner and made use of a recorded call from former President Barack Obama.
“This one’s serious,” Obama said, according to CNN. “You can’t sit it out.”
Retired NBA star and Alabama native Charles Barkley campaigned for Jones at a rally Monday night, blasting his opponent over allegations he sexually assaulted and harassed young women and girls — some as young as 14. “At some point, we’ve got to stop looking like idiots to the nation,” he said to cheers from the crowd.
Moore kept a low profile in the last week of a campaign where he’s been hounded by allegations he sexually assaulted underage teen girls, but he granted an interview to a pro-Trump political action committee over the weekend. The interview, posted to YouTube on Sunday, was conducted by a 12-year-old girl, Trump booster Millie March.
At Moore’s rally, Bannon avoided any of the allegations against him.
“This is greater than Judge Moore, this is greater than Alabama,” Bannon told a barn packed with supporters of the conservative candidate, describing Tuesday’s special election as an “up-or-down vote between the Trump miracle and the nullification project.”
Moore’s wife, Kayla, used the rally to clear up allegations going to a brothel while serving in Vietnam. “We walked inside, I could tell you what I saw, but I don’t want to. It was clear to us what kind of place it was,” the pal said, noting the bar was filled with “pretty girls” who were “very young.”
But Moore — who’s been accused of picking up teenage girls at an Alabama mall — wanted to leave, his friend said. “That was Roy,” he said. “Honorable, disciplined, morally
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of anti-Semitism in her family. “Fake news will tell you that we don’t care for Jews,” she told the crowd, according to Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel. “One of our attorneys is a Jew!” The rally kicked off with a longtime friend of the candidate’s sharing a story about the pair accidentally straight and highly principled.”