GOP Finger-Pointing Starts Right After Moore’s Defeat in Alabama
- Loss to Democrat leaves GOP nervous before 2018 elections
- Pro- and anti-establishment Republican wings blame each other
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The Republican finger-pointing started minutes after GOP candidate Roy Moore lost to a Democrat in deep-red Alabama’s Senate race, with nervous party members fearing more of the same in the 2018 election might take away their majorities in Congress.
“Congratulations to the Bannon wing of the @GOP for gifting a seat to @SenateDems in one of the reddest states,” Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo of Florida wrote on Twitter Wednesday, referring to Moore backer Steve Bannon, the anti-establishment ally of President Donald Trump. “You have no future in our country’s politics.”