# Roy Moore running for Senate again
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [June 21, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860 "2019-06-21T20:09:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/1 "2019-06-21T20:09:30Z")
He will likely win this time since he will have Trump’s coattails.
> **[Roy Moore running again for US Senate seat in Alabama | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/politics/roy-moore-senate-run/index.html)**
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> Former Judge Roy Moore announced Thursday he'll run for the US Senate seat in Alabama again following his failed bid in 2017 after three women alleged he sexually abused them when they were teenagers decades ago.
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### Author:  [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/2 "2019-06-21T21:27:24Z")
I don’t think he’ll win the primary.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/3 "2019-06-21T22:16:38Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#):
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> I don’t think he’ll win the primary.
Particularly not if Sessions gets in it.
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### Author:  [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/4 "2019-06-21T22:18:48Z")
I just keep wondering how much the Dems paid him.
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### Author:  [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/5 "2019-06-21T22:39:11Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> Particularly not if Sessions gets in it.
[Sessions says he has no plans to return to Senate](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/419925-sessions-says-he-has-no-plans-to-return-to-senate)
People say they aren’t running and then run all the time, but I believe the magical little racist elf this time for some reason.
[Tommy Tuberville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_Alabama#Declared_2) is in.
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/6 "2019-06-22T00:32:49Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#):
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> I don’t think he’ll win the primary.
He certainly seems to face a strong headwind from the national party - [McConnell vows to ‘vigorously’ oppose Moore’s Senate bid](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/449601-mcconnell-vows-to-oppose-moores-senate-bid-in-every-way)
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/7 "2019-06-22T00:38:37Z")
I bet he wins the nomination going away. His followers may be batshit, but they’re loyal batshit. You don’t need the national committee to get the nomination, you just need enough fanatics. This is about the only way Democrats have a prayer at keeping the seat.
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/8 "2019-06-22T02:18:44Z")
Sessions won’t run because as a Senator he’d be faced with a choice between being a toady to the man who fired him or being a leper in his own party if he opposes him.
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### Author:  [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/9 "2019-06-22T02:47:29Z")
> [@DinoR](#):
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> He certainly seems to face a strong headwind from the national party - [McConnell vows to ‘vigorously’ oppose Moore’s Senate bid](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/449601-mcconnell-vows-to-oppose-moores-senate-bid-in-every-way)
And if Moore manages to GET the nomination McConnell will then give him vigorous support against Doug Jones. Cuz that’s what evil pieces of shit do.
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### Author:  [@sps49sd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sps49sd)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/10 "2019-06-25T13:58:18Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#):
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> [Sessions says he has no plans to return to Senate](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/419925-sessions-says-he-has-no-plans-to-return-to-senate)
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> People say they aren’t running and then run all the time, but I believe the magical little racist elf this time for some reason.
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> [Tommy Tuberville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_Alabama#Declared_2) is in.
I’d vote for Tommy.
He is hated by some Auburn backers, and maybe by the non- Lee county part of the state.
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### Author:  [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/11 "2019-06-25T17:05:19Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#):
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> [Sessions says he has no plans to return to Senate](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/419925-sessions-says-he-has-no-plans-to-return-to-senate)
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> People say they aren’t running and then run all the time, but I believe the magical little racist elf this time for some reason.
From your link:
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> Former Attorney General and Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions (R) hinted to Politico that he is done with politics after his ouster from the Department of Justice despite rumors he was considering running for his old Senate seat in 2020.
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> "I’ve been clearing my brain. I think that’s a fair statement,” told Politico on Wednesday. “I’ll go to Alabama, do some things and then that will clarify things a little more before I worry about making a statement.”
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> “No. I mean, no,” he added when asked if he misses the Senate. “I could go back and spend time in the woods. I’ve got 10 grandchildren, oldest is 11.”
I think this translates as “I can’t find anybody dumb enough to unpocket serious bucks for my campaign.”
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### Author:  [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/12 "2019-06-26T20:46:22Z")
He is the gift that keeps on giving. I am more optimistic than the OP. Remember, Democrats run strongest in presidential years.
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### Author:  [@Ambrosio\_Spinola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambrosio_Spinola)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/13 "2019-06-26T22:14:35Z")
There’s still time for him to turn it around I guess, but it seems that managing to screw up winning as a Republican in Alabama tends to [make one rather unpopular even in a Republican primary](https://freebeacon.com/politics/roy-moore-trailing-in-latest-alabama-senate-poll/).
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### Author:  [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-running-for-senate-again/835860/14 "2019-06-26T22:23:13Z")
Bummer.
LOL at “margin of error of 3.96 percent”.