Gap tightens between Moore and Jones, with Dems in the slight lead
Although the gap is tightening, a dangerous lead for Republicans by the Democrats for the Senate race of Alabama comes as Hollywood star Jimmy Kimmel ramps up his attacks on the alleged child molester and predator.
Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Alabama's Senate seat, is probably the least likely successor of a Senate story. He's unlikely to remain in the Senate for a long while, with many Republicans and Democrats saying their response to at least eight allegations against him may round up to an expulsion.
Moore was accused by at least eight women for sexual abuse, misconduct, harassment and even assault. Many of the women say the acts of sexual violence or misconduct occurred when they were only young teenage girls.
One woman, Beverly, says that Moore assaulted her violently when she was only 16 years of age in Alabama outside of a restaurant. She says he violently grabbed her neck and forced her down near his crotch. "I thought he was going to rape me," she told reporters while providing key evidence that she had met Roy when she was in school. A signed yearbook, her lawyer says, proves that Moore did in fact meet her.
This after Moore accused the victim of this alleged assault of fabricating the entire story, potentially being payed by the Washington Post or other news sources to falsely come out. They then challenged the legitimacy of the yearbook's signature, calling it potentially fake and saying it didn't look like they matched.
Moore, right before these allegations came out, was 11% higher than his Democrat opponent Doug Jones in the almost eternally Republican state, if anything one of America's most Red states, who was scheduled and expected to lose.
However, following the allegations, Doug took an extreme leap to 8% above (a raise of nearly 20%) his Republican opponent. As news of potential proof of obstruction of justice, with new indictments and new flips against Trump and the US White House as well as news of potential war with North Korea, the news on Moore is slowly fading.
Although both continue to campaign against each other; Trump and Steve Bannon's support for Moore was enough to draw Jones' lead from 8% to only 3%. However, a CNN poll shows 53% of those asked think Doug Jones has 'higher morals, values' than his opponent.
This really doesn't mean that Jones will win the Senate race. However, the likelihood of a success for Democrats in the state has almost never been this high.
