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Two GOP senators withdraw Roy Moore endorsements after sexual misconduct allegations | TheHill

posted onNovember 11, 2017
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Article snippet: Two Republican senators have unendorsed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) following reported allegations of sexual misconduct against him. GOP Sen. MORE (Mont.) both announced they would no longer endorse Moore for Senate on Friday night. “Having read the detailed description of the incidents, as well as the response from Judge Moore and his campaign, I can no longer endorse his candidacy for the US Senate,” Lee said in a statement. “I am pulling my endorsement and support for Roy Moore for U.S. Senate,” Daines tweeted. In a bombshell report in The Washington Post Thursday, Moore was accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl in 1979 when he was 32. The newspaper also found three other women who said that Moore had approached them around a similar time, when they were between the ages of 16 and 18. Moore has denied the allegations regarding the 14-year-old, saying they are "completely false.” In an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show Friday, Moore blasted the allegations, calling them “politically motivated.” “I believe they are brought only to stop a very successful campaign, and that’s what they are doing,” Moore said. Moore maintained he did not know the woman, Leigh Corfman, who said that as a 14-year-old in 1979, Moore forced her into at least two unwanted sexual encounters — one where he kissed her and one where he touched her and asked her to touch him. When pressed by Hannity on whether he dated teenagers as an adult, M... Link to the full article to read more

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