Alabama’s Ten Commandments Candidate May Upend U.S. Senate Order
- Moore pledged to never compromise on his ‘deeply held values’
- Republican campaigned against Senate Majority Leader McConnell
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Almost nobody has more at stake in Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senate race than Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who could see his tenuous majority upended by an uncompromising conservative who campaigned against the GOP leader.
Roy Moore, 70, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, is the front-runner in Tuesday’s runoff primary election, and recent polls show him well ahead of McConnell’s preferred candidate, incumbent Senator Luther Strange.