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   You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| President Donald Trump tried to claim Wednesday morning that he had been right all along about the race. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Trump: I originally backed Luther Strange because Moore couldn't win 
   
   President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday morning that he knew Republican Roy Moore, who he endorsed ahead of Tuesday’s special Senate election in Alabama, would be unable to win because “the deck was stacked against him!” 
   
   Trump tried to claim Wednesday morning that he had been right all along about the race, because he had initially endorsed Luther Strange, who ultimately lost to Moore, in the Alabama primary. 
   
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   “The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strange (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “I was right! Roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him!” 
   
   Later Wednesday morning, he tweeted: "If last night’s election proved anything, it proved that we need to put up GREAT Republican candidates to increase the razor thin margins in both the House and Senate." 
   
   Moore was defeated Tuesday night by Doug Jones, the first Democrat from Alabama elected to the Senate in 25 years. Moore, a former chief judge of Alabama’s Supreme Court who was twice thrown off the bench for refusing to follow judicial orders, was accused during the campaign of sexually molesting and assaulting girls as young as 14 when he was a district attorney in his 30s. 
   
   Trump's Wednesday morning tweet followed one from the previous night, when he congratulated Jones on a "hard fought victory." 
   
   Trump had initially called on Moore to drop his Senate candidacy if the allegations were true, but wound up coming back into the Republican candidate’s fold last week with a full-throated endorsement. Trump recorded a robocall on Moore’s behalf that rang Alabamians’ phones earlier this week and hosted a rally last Friday just across the state line in Pensacola, Florida. 
   
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   While Trump on Wednesday touted his support for Strange, he privately expressed doubts about his endorsement even before Alabamian voters cast ballots in the GOP primary. The president held a rally for Strange in Alabama, but only at the urging of others, where he delivered a speech that famously included a screed against NFL players who protest during the national anthem. "I might have made a mistake," the president told the Alabama crowd at the time. 
   
   Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), once a loud critic of the president's who has more recently become a golf partner and cheerleader of Trump's, echoed the president's Monday-morning-quarterbacking with a post to his own Twitter account, bashing former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who loudly backed Moore's campaign. 
   
   "When it comes to Alabama politics Steve Bannon should have followed President @realDonaldTrump lead in supporting Luther Strange," Graham said Wednesday morning. "Trump’s instincts on the Alabama race proved to be correct." 
   
   It was unclear what Trump meant with his suggestion that “the deck was stacked against” Moore, given Alabama’s status among the most conservative states in the nation. The state has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, when Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) ran as a member of the opposite party before becoming a Republican. The state has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976. 
   
   Jones's soon-to-be colleague on Capitol Hill, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) celebrated the Alabama Democrat's win Wednesday morning as a moment indicative of larger movement of Americans, and especially women, unhappy with the tone of Trump's presidency. 
   
   The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strange (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election. I was right! Roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2017 
   
   
   
   "He's often berated women and made them feel that they cannot be heard, as well. And what I'm seeing today and what this election of Doug Jones is about is a statement by particularly women, African-American women, and the African-American community, coming out and saying we are going to vote our values," Gillibrand, who Trump attacked online on Tuesday with a tweet that some saw as laden with sexual innuendo, told NBC's "Today" show. 
   
   "This was an election about what we feel and our values and what we care about. And I think President Trump is wrong. He is a bully, and he has been attacking different people across this country since he's been president," she said. "Women have stood up, have fought hard, have spoken out about their beliefs, and they've not stopped. And so I think that is a testament to this election, and because of it, I have hope for this country." 
   
   Former Vice President Joe Biden, whose relationship with Jones dates back to Biden's 1988 presidential campaign, said he spoke to Jones three times on Tuesday. Biden headlined a rally in Alabama for Jones early on in his race against Moore and was perhaps the highest-profile Democrat to appear in-state on Jones's behalf. The former vice president said Jones was "over the moon" and "really anxious to get to work" in the Senate in the wake of his Tuesday night win, praising the senator-elect for using his victory speech to call on Congress to renew the Children's Health Insurance Program instead of bashing his GOP opponent. 
   
   The former vice president also suggested that Senate Republicans were likely breathing a sigh of relief in the wake of Moore's defeat, pleased that they would not have to be associated with Moore, a controversial firebrand even before the allegations of child molestation came out. 
   
   "Probably some if the happiest people in America today are the Republicans in the senate. No. I genuinely mean it," Biden, a former senator, said on "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday. "What I mean by that is that the divisiveness that was caused within the Republican party by Bannon and all the sort of bile that comes out of the administration is just -- I know the majority of the members on the Republican side and they're decent people. They’re not comfortable in this territory." ||||| Tweet with a location 
   
   You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| The Drudge Report’s Matt Drudge blasted Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore after his loss Tuesday, saying Sen. Luther Strange Luther Johnson StrangeRepublicans fear Cochran replacement puts Senate seat at risk Mississippi is new headache for GOP in the South McDaniel makes GOP Senate challenge official in Miss. MORE (R-Ala.) would have won the race. 
   
   “Luther Strange would have won in a landslide... Just too much crazy in nerve racking times,�? Drudge said Tuesday night in a rare tweet. “There IS a limit!�? 
   
   Luther Strange would have won in a landslide... Just too much crazy in nerve racking times. There IS a limit! pic.twitter.com/vketz7G1OR — MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) December 13, 2017 
   
   Strange was appointed to the hold seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDEA moves to curb oversupply of opioids The rule-of-law party must unite around Mueller GOP Rep. Zeldin to lead call for second special counsel MORE until the special election. He lost the GOP primary to Moore. 
   
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   Drudge has previously labeled Moore “Judge Whore�? on his influential news-aggregation website after reports of sexual misconduct allegations against Moore were reported. 
   
   Moore was accused of sexual misconduct last month by multiple women, including one woman who said Moore initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 years old and he was 32. 
   
   Moore denied the allegations, but he faced calls to drop out of the race from top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellMcConnell: Syria strikes were 'appropriate and measured' The Hill's 12:30 Report Senate to vote on repeal of CFPB auto-loan guidance MORE (R-Ky.), who supported Strange in the GOP primary. 
   
   President Trump Donald John TrumpTrump: US, North Korea holding talks at 'very high levels' Hoyer: Dems eying ways to roll back GOP tax law New Jersey governor signs automatic voter registration bill MORE threw his support behind Moore after the primary, during which he had supported Strange. In recent days, he urged his followers on Twitter to vote for Moore and held a campaign rally near the Alabama border in support of Moore. 
   
   Jones’s stunning victory tightens Republicans’ margin in the Senate, giving them just a 51-49 advantage over Democrats heading into the 2018 midterm elections.
target: – President Trump ended his night by congratulating Doug Jones, and began his morning by tweeting that he essentially knew Jones would be the victor. "The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strange (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election," he tweeted. "I was right! Roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him!" Politico scratched its head at the "deck was stacked against" Moore part, noting Alabama ranks as one of America's most conservative states and hasn't voted a Democrat into the Senate since 1992 (the last time it went Democrat for president was 1976). The Hill reports Trump wasn't the only one to react to the Moore news by tweeting about Strange. In what it calls a "rare tweet," Matt Drudge wrote: "Luther Strange would have won in a landslide... Just too much crazy in nerve racking times. There IS a limit!" In a second tweet, Trump offered his Alabama takeaway: "If last night's election proved anything, it proved that we need to put up GREAT Republican candidates to increase the razor thin margins in both the House and Senate."