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TexasTowelie

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Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:39 PM Dec 2017

Roiled by claims, Alabama Senate race goes off the rails

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Shouting matches and threats. A feud with a late-night television host. Standing ovations and standoffs with the media. Long stretches without campaigning.

Republican Roy Moore's supposedly smooth ride to the U.S. Senate has become an off-color demolition derby since he was hit with decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct involving teenagers.

Moore has made limited public appearances, leading to Democrat Doug Jones, who held a flurry of events over the weekend, to mock Moore for hiding.

"We're on the campaign trail meeting all of you and meeting folks here as no one knows where Roy Moore is," Jones said Friday to a crowd of reporters interviewing him.

Read more: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/36981179/roiled-by-claims-alabama-senate-race-goes-off-the-rails

Has anybody tried looking for Roy at the mall?

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