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Trump rallies for Moore ahead of Alabama election | TheHill

posted onDecember 9, 2017
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Article snippet: MORE rallied on behalf of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore in neighboring Florida on Friday night in an effort to boost the Republican in the final days of the campaign. "We need a Republican in the House, we need a Republican in the Senate. We need more of them," Trump said during the campaign event in Pensacola, Fla., touting his agenda. Trump spoke for over half an hour, feuding with CNN and ABC News over faulty reports in the past week and blasting illegal immigration before getting to speaking about Moore. "This guy's screaming, 'We want Roy Moore,'" Trump said, pointing to an audience member. "He's right." "How many people here are from the great state of Alabama?" Trump asked to cheers. "We want jobs, jobs, jobs. So get out and vote for Roy Moore." Trump spoke at the rally organized just 20 miles from the Alabama-Florida border and in the same media market as Mobile, Ala., the state’s third most populous city. Trump's rally in Pensacola was scheduled before he explicitly backed the Senate candidate, who has been embroiled in controversy since allegations of sexual misconduct emerged last month. Various GOP leaders in Washington have called on Moore to step aside after multiple women accused him of pursuing them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s, including one woman who said Moore initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 and he was 32.  Trump, who has pointed to Moore's denial of the allegations, formally endorsed the GOP candid... Link to the full article to read more

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