The GOP would like Moore to win.

[edhopper]

They have shown us there plan.
Moore wins. They expel him for his behavior with minors. The GOP Governor gets to replace him with a GOP interim Senator.
This election gets a do over.

[Madam45for2923]

1. I have heard they'd like to replace him with Sessions. Two birds. One shot.

[onenote]

2. I doubt it. They're pretty much screwed if they expel him.

If Moore wins the election and then the Senate expels him, the republican voters who elected in AL are going to be more pissed than you can imagine. And Moore is just crazy and spiteful enough to run as an independent in the special election (even if Sessions is the republican nominee). And that would split the vote and open the door for a Democrat to win.

My bet is that if he wins, he narrowly avoids being expelled.

What they want is for Jones to win, and then have Sessions run in 2020 and beat Jones (hoping that Moore won't run as an independent if he loses the special election).

[edhopper]

5. I think in the end

they will vote for anybody with an R.

Moore won't run again if expelled. IMHO

[HAB911]

6. anybody with an R

already sold their souls to the devil, no reason to change game plans now!

[underpants]

3. And Moore show back up and probably win the primary again

He thinks he's on a mission from God

[onenote]

7. That's a possibility too. It would be difficult for the AL re-pubs to disqualify him

without turning him into a martyr.

[leftynyc]

4. Except for the anger of the deplorables

that all want moore in the senate. They'll be able to claim (I guess rightly) that the "establishment" overturned a free and fair election. I honestly don't see a way the Democrats don't come out ahead in this.