GOP: Can’t stand no Moore!

EVEN AS President Trump stuck up for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, Republican senators continued the drumbeat of calls Sunday for him to step aside.

GOP lawmakers fretted that if Moore does make it to the Senate, the controversy surrounding him could derail their agenda.

Trump is “trying to throw a lifeline to Roy Moore,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham — cautioning that it was a bad move for the Republican Party.

“If he wins, you get the baggage of him winning, and it becomes a story every day about whether or not you believe the women or Roy Moore, should he stay in the Senate, should he be expelled,” Graham (R-S.C.) said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“And what I would tell President Trump (is), if you think winning with Roy Moore is going to be easy for the Republican Party, you’re mistaken.”

Nine women have said Moore assaulted, had sexual contact, or pursued them romantically when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s.

Moore is vying to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a Dec. 12 special election, but Moore’s would-be colleagues said having him in the Senate would be no boon to Republicans.

“It is pretty clear to me that the best thing Roy Moore can do for the country is to move on,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said Trump should “use his influence to try to get Roy Moore to step aside” and make way for a write-in candidacy by another Republican.

“We can win that seat,” Thune said on “Fox News Sunday.”