Thune: 'It's Over' For Roy Moore And Republicans Must 'Move On'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published DECEMBER 14, 2017 11:23 AM
Sen. John Thune (R-ND), the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, stressed on Thursday morning that Republican Roy Moore lost the Alabama senate and that Republicans must move on despite Moores refusal to concede the race.
During an interview on Fox News, host Sandra Smith noted that Moore has yet to concede the race despite Democrat Doug Jones decisive margin of victory, and asked Thune if he was relieved that Moore lost. Thune hedged and argued that there was no good outcome before stressing that Moore definitely lost and that Senate Republicans will just have to operate with one fewer member in their caucus.
I think the message coming out of this, Sandra, is that unelectable candidates dont normally get elected. And there were issues that we knew, everybody knew, that were going to be problematic. He was going to come in here, if he got elected, under a cloud in an ethics investigation. Im not happy with the outcome. There were no good outcomes as far as Im concerned there. I thought the best solution if he had stepped aside and allowed another Republican to run, we would have won that seat, Thune told Smith.
So we have to deal now with another Democrat in the Senate, but Roy Moore lost that election. Its over, Thune added. Well move on and do the best that we can in the days ahead to continue to move an agenda forward that is good for the American people.
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Turbineguy
(37,420 posts)"We would like Roy Moore to leave us alone!"
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Nobody wanted him in the Senate, except of course Dump who didn't see any problem at all with assaulting a 14 year old and being fixated on teenage girls. It happened 40 years ago so hey! no problem!
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,078 posts)... he is bought and paid for by his, "donors". And as always, from the quotes above, he speaks out of both sides of his mouth. That is if he doesn't just mail you a response letter full of fake sunshine and statistical lies.
He still wishes Moore won, but Thune is due on local KELO TV for an interview along with Mikey Rounds, the other congresscritter from SD.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)He is no doubt a Republican shill, but for a guy that's from a land locked state, he knows there's a big surf warning for next fall. His seat isn't up again until 2022, but he sees the direction the GOP is heading leads to extinction.
Gothmog
(145,965 posts)alp227
(32,078 posts)Article has been corrected