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Sources said the Alabama candidate, who's disappeared from the campaign trail, was planning to be out of state for the Army-Navy football game.
By ALEX ISENSTADT and GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI 12/10/2017 07:18 PM EST Updated 12/10/2017 08:53 PM EST
MOBILE, Ala. In the last weekend of Alabamas wild special Senate election, Doug Jones barnstormed the state with A-list Democrats in a bid to turn out black voters he desperately needs to win in the deep-red state.
Republican Roy Moore disappeared.
Confronting accusations that he harassed or molested teenage girls, Moore hasnt held a public event since Tuesday, a decision that has perplexed some Republicans given the closeness of the race. Two Republicans briefed on Moores schedule before this weekend said he intended to spend Saturday in Philadelphia at the Army-Navy football game a long-planned trip that the West Point grad had insisted he would still take this year despite the election.
One of those Republicans, who expressed concern about Moores absence, said that the planned trip was discussed with Moores campaign within the last few weeks and the candidate determined to go case closed.
Moores campaign declined repeated requests to discuss his whereabouts and refused to say whether he had in fact gone to Philadelphia. His absence has baffled local and out of town reporters, some of whom staked out Moores church on Sunday morning only to be informed that he wouldnt be attending.
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mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)It snowed hard on his cowboy hat.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)They're not exactly known for very warm welcomes (just as fans of a Philly team's opponent)
whathehell
(29,095 posts)It's my hometown, so I know of what you speak.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)Plus, who cares what he did or did not do when he was 32? Didn't we learn during GWB's first campaign that anything that happened before the age of 40 was considered to be "youthful indiscretions"?