Trump weighs 11th-hour boost for Roy Moore

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




The president likely won't visit Alabama, but he could try to activate his vast support network there before the Dec. 12 special election.

By ALEX ISENSTADT 11/29/2017 05:03 AM EST

President Donald Trump isn’t planning to go to Alabama, but he still might use the weight of his office to help elect scandal-tarred Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.

The White House is considering flooding the state with robo-calls, emails, and text messages in an offensive designed to activate the president’s supporters on Moore’s behalf, three people familiar with the discussions said. An administration-sanctioned super PAC, America First Action, is conducting polling in the state as it weighs a possible 11th-hour barrage.

Any White House-approved move would inject the president directly into a Senate race that is generating national headlines and become a focal point in a national conversation about sexual impropriety. Moore is confronting allegations that he sexually pursued teenage girls while in his 30s.

With the Dec. 12 special election fast approaching and polls showing a narrowing race, the Alabama contest is commanding the attention of Trump and top administration officials. The special election was a major topic of discussion during a Monday meeting between Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and White House political director Bill Stepien, two people familiar with the gathering said.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/29/trump-roy-moore-alabama-senate-267825

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Sort of surrogate/vicarious vote for Moore is a vote for Trump.

Very cynical but it may work.

That's why Doug Jones has to get out the vote including people who are registered but don't bother to show up to the polls.