I can understand Moore’s reluctance to concede at this hour, with the margin of victory so razor thin, but come on, Roy. After all these months, you barely got half of the Trump voters to come out for you.
You should have taken a lesson from Trump, and fought harder.
True.
Agreed.
Kind of an uphill battle when you're outspent 14:1 and the GOPe pulls funding from you over misconduct charges that are not only unproven, but likely false...
It was the accusations, which so many of our side simply accepted at face value and repeated endlessly, that cost this election. I saw the "write in" vote was something like 22,000, which was the exact margin of victory.
People like Shelby urging people to not vote for Moore was the cause of this "write in" vote. People like Jeff Flake writing a very public check to Doug Jones lent credibility to the accusations.
There was no "fight harder." Moore simply did not have any tools with which he could redeem himself in the eyes of a lot of people who had been misled by what the media told them, and by what other Republicans constantly repeated and amplified.
How many millions did he/they spend to turn a safe GOP seat DemocRAT Blue, some $60M and counting???
Passing Trump agenda has been a squeaker at best with Collins, Murkowski not to mention Flake and Corker but there’s always the dying “Maverick,” John McCain to put the lid on a vote, at the last possible moment.
Now the GOP excuse, “we’re down a seat,” so they never, ever have to let normal Americans have what they want, need and voted for, while Mitch McConnell, spent millions from his Swamp Stash to keep open borders, terrorists and punishing tax breaks for his friends, while those in the DC Swamp can ride the lobbing gravy train off to eventual billionaire retirement packages, only you or I could only dream up!
His/the Swamp message to all of us, “We pick who gets to run and if you people try an end run around us, we’ll gang up with the ‘RATs so you’ll lose, our money spigot never turns off!”
He fought like hell. The whole world was against him.
Moore fought - folks didn’t do what the Left did to support their candidate - they threw everything they had and all the money they could come up with because they understood how important the seat was - our side pontificated and sat smugly back because they “just knew” he would prevail....willing to bet that less than 2% of those on FR who supported Moore actually donated to him.