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Article snippet: Updated on Dec. 4. That a Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama would cruise to victory seemed almost a foregone conclusion. But after a series of women came forward to accuse that candidate, Roy S. Moore, of sexual misconduct, less is certain in a race that could have major implications for the party’s ability to govern in Washington. President Trump has gone from largely avoiding mention of Mr. Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, to endorsing him, which prompted the Republican National Committee to restore its financial support. Senate Republicans have distanced themselves from the candidate, and some called on him to withdraw from the race, but the intensity of those demands has faded as the election has neared. Democrats, for their part, are contemplating the near-impossible: flipping a seat in a deeply red state that last elected a Democratic senator in 1990. As voters prepare for the Dec. 12 special election, here is a breakdown of The New York Times’s coverage on the race since the accusations emerged. On Nov. 9, The Washington Post reported that four women said Mr. Moore had pursued them sexually or romantically when they were 18 or younger and he was in his 30s. One of them said that he touched her sexually when she was 14, below the state’s age of consent. Over the next several days, a woman accused Mr. Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was 16 (read her statement here), and four more women accused him of sexual misco... Link to the full article to read more