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Article snippet: The Alabama Republican Party is shrugging off pressure from Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) to disqualify Roy Moore as its nominee for Senate. McConnell and other Senate Republicans had pressured the state party to ditch Moore by arguing that he has no chance of winning the race, and even if he does, he faces a Senate Ethics Committee investigation and expulsion vote. “The Alabama Republican Party has to come to grips with the fact that they’re going to lose that seat. Do they want to continue to back someone accused of these horrible things and also lose the seat?” said a source close to the Senate Republican leadership. A National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) poll conducted Sunday and Monday found Moore trailing Democrat Doug Jones by 12 points. The source argued that if Alabama Republicans refuse to disqualify Moore, “you lose your credibility, your reputation and the seat.” “If that’s something they want to do, it’s their prerogative but that doesn’t seem a good deal to me,” the source added. That argument, however, is gaining little traction with Republican officials in Alabama, who are leery of overturning the results of the GOP primary by disqualifying Moore and pushing an alternative write-in candidate. Whatever they do, it’s too late to pull Moore’s name off the ballot; people have been voting absentee in the state since Oct. 18. One Alabama-based GOP operative warned that Moore’s loyal supporters would retaliate against any state offic... Link to the full article to read more