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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2017
ANALYSIS
Trump bets on Moore in Alabama and suffers stinging defeat
started the year as a deeply
wounded minority party, press
toward the midterm elec-
tions with a burst of momen-
tum from the most unlikely of
states.
By JULIE PACE
To be sure, the Alabama
Associated Press
race was highly unusual,
and as with all special elec-
WASHINGTON — Rarely tions, there’s no guarantee it
has a sitting president rallied will prove to be a barometer
behind such a scandal-plagued for contests a year from now.
candidate the way Donald A perfect storm of controver-
Trump did with Alabama’s sies helped Jones overcome
Roy Moore. And rarely has that Alabama’s strong Republican
bent, most notably the sexual
bet failed so spectacularly.
Moore’s
defeat
misconduct allegations
Tuesday in Alabama
that surfaced against
— as stalwart a Repub-
Moore. The matter left
lican state as they come
the Republican Party
— left Trump unapolo-
deeply divided over
getic and his political
whether holding a Sen-
ate seat was worth the
allies shell-shocked.
potential
long-term
Trump had dug in on
Roy
risks of supporting
his support for Moore
Moore
Moore.
despite allegations the
Some Republicans
former judge engaged
in sexual misconduct with did pull their support from
teenagers when he was in his Moore after the allegations sur-
30s, becoming one of the can- faced, including Senate Major-
didate’s most ardent national ity Leader Mitch McConnell
supporters in the race’s clos- and the National Republican
ing days.
Senatorial Committee. Many
Now, out of the wreckage more GOP officials in Wash-
of Moore’s defeat to Demo- ington, D.C., privately pre-
crat Doug Jones, Trump faces ferred the prospect of a Moore
mounting questions about the defeat over having to deal
limits of his own political cap- with daily questions about his
ital. He’ll head into his sec- actions and the possible cloud
ond year in office with one less of a Senate ethics investigation
Republican senator, narrowing hanging over the party.
a margin already so slim that
But Trump is the Republi-
it has so far left him unable to can Party leader, and he jumped
push major legislation through in with both feet. In a moment
Congress. Democrats, who of national reckoning over sex-
Jones victory
a rebuke to
president
AP Photo/John Bazemore
Democrat Doug Jones smiles as he arrives to speak Tues-
day in Birmingham, Ala. In a stunning victory aided by scan-
dal, Jones won Alabama’s special Senate election, beating
back history, an embattled Republican opponent and Presi-
dent Donald Trump, who urgently endorsed GOP rebel Roy
Moore despite a litany of sexual misconduct allegations.
ual misconduct, where hardly
a day passes without a promi-
nent man being ousted from a
powerful position, the presi-
dent made it impossible for the
GOP to disassociate itself from
Moore and the accusations
swirling around him.
Trump’s
immediate
response to Jones’ victory was
a tweet congratulating him
Tuesday night, surprisingly
magnanimous for a president
who lashes out at the small-
est perceived slight and often
seems to prioritize winning
above all else. But by Wednes-
day, Trump was on the defen-
sive, reminding his followers
that he had originally endorsed
Moore’s Republican primary
opponent, Sen. Luther Strange.
“I said Roy Moore will not
be able to win the general elec-
tion. I was right!” Trump wrote
in a pre-dawn tweet. “Roy
worked hard but the deck was
stacked against him!”
The president offered no
immediate insight into whether
he viewed the results as a refer-
endum on himself, personally
or politically.
But there’s no doubt that
Trump’s track record of late
has indeed been worrisome
for Republicans weighing how
closely to align themselves
with the president in the mid-
terms, where control of Con-
gress will be at stake.
Last month, the Trump-
backed Republican gubernato-
rial candidate in Virginia lost
in a race that wasn’t close. The
president now has the dubious
distinction of picking wrong
twice in Alabama, a state he
won by 28 points just over
a year ago. His first blemish
came during the state’s Sen-
ate primary, when he backed
Strange, a decision he openly
questioned while on stage at
a rally for the incumbent days
before the vote.
Moore’s victory over
Strange pushed Trump back
to the roots of his presidential
campaign. He realigned him-
self with Steve Bannon, his
chief strategist during the 2016
race and in the White House
until he was ousted in a staff
shakeup earlier this year. Ban-
non was one of Moore’s most
prominent supporters from the
start and viewed the contest as
a ripe opportunity to press for-
ward in his goal of disrupting
the Republican Party.
More traditional Repub-
licans have long warned that
Bannon’s chosen candidates
signal disaster for the party and
will struggle to defeat Demo-
crats in competitive states. The
fact that one of those candi-
dates couldn’t succeed in reli-
ably red — or conservative —
Alabama was quickly wielded
as all the more reason for party
leaders to marginalize Bannon.
“Not only did Steve Ban-
non cost us a critical Senate
seat in one of the most Repub-
lican states in the country, but
he also dragged the president
of the United States into his
fiasco,” said Steven Law, the
head of the McConnell-linked
Senate Leadership Fund super
PAC.
It’s far from certain if Trump
feels the same way after the
Alabama race. The president
seems more naturally attuned
to other political outsiders and
is well-aware that his command
over a sizeable swath of the
GOP primary electorate makes
him a powerful player in deter-
mining the party’s direction in
upcoming elections. Whether
he can transfer his own politi-
cal good fortunes to those can-
didates remains an unanswered
question.
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