"Roy Moore, a conservative lightening rod who cost the Republican party a Senate seat in deep-red Alabama, is signaling fresh interest in mounting another campaign in 2020, sparking alarm on the right that Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) could be gifted another unlikely victory," the Washington Examiner reports.
Roy Moore told supporters that the "battle is not over" in Alabama's Senate race even though President Trump and others have called on him to concede, the AP reports.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) "is privately telling colleagues he will not back off of an ethics investigation if Roy Moore (R) is elected," CNN reports.
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds that 61% of voters — including a plurality of Republicans — think the U.S. Senate should expel the embattled Roy Moore (R) if he wins election today in Alabama.
That includes 77% of Democrats, 59% of independents and 45% of Republicans.
Republican national committeewoman Joyce Simmons resigned from her party leadership post in protest of the party's financial support for GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore in Alabama, the Lincoln Journal Star reports.
"One of the women who accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of making advances on her when she was a teen and he a local prosecutor admitted Friday to writing part of the yearbook inscription she offered as proof, a new crack in her story that gives Moore an opening to attack her credibility," Fox News reports.
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told the Weekly Standard that the committee will never support Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R), who has been accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls.