Moore weighs another run
WASHINGTON — Roy Moore of Alabama, narrow loser of a turbulent special election for Senate in 2017, is considering a fresh run next year.
National Republican leaders are signaling they again will try preventing their party from nominating the twiceremoved state jurist whose campaign was battered by allegations of long-ago sexual harassment of teenagers.
National party leaders say a Moore nomination would endanger what they view as a strong shot at defeating Sen. Doug Jones, the Democrat and former federal prosecutor who upset Moore two years ago.
Moore’s nomination could also have national repercussions, allowing Democrats to accuse the GOP of ignoring the #Metoo movement and coddling a man accused of sexual misconduct, allegations he’s denied. Moore says he expects to announce a decision in mid-june. released Friday by her Democratic presidential campaign, centers on the establishment of “affirmative, statutory rights” that would “block states from interfering in the ability of a health care provider to provide medical care, including abortion services.”
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock launched his first full day of campaigning for president Friday in Newton, Iowa, a town where union manufacturing jobs have vanished in the past 15 years.
The largest outside Democratic group said Friday that the key to defeating Trump is to focus on pocketbook issues and not fall prey to the president’s efforts to tag the party as a band of socialists. Priorities USA said polling indicates voters in battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida are worried about their personal finances and aren’t sold on Trump’s talk about a good economy.
In a statement, a Trump campaign spokeswoman called Priorities’ findings “a delusional fantasy.”
“As President Trump said, the Republican Party will become the party of health care,” spokeswoman Kayleigh Mcenany said. “Democrats nevertheless will continue with their fraught attempt to poke holes in the Trump economy — the hottest economy in modern history. Best of luck.”