“The people of Alabama understand what’s going on here.”
Kayla Moore, the wife of embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, said her husband wouldn’t back down from what she suggested were attacks from the media and Democrats.
Kayla specifically targeted The Washington Post, which covered the initial allegations against Moore, claiming that the publication called everyone she and her husband knew for the “last 40 years.” “They print whatever anyone says without checking to even see if it is correct,” she claimed.
The Post, Kayla suggested, looked down on Alabamians’ intelligence and were willing to call them names.
“So to the people of Alabama — thank you for being smarter than they think you are,” she told gatherers in Montgomery, Alabama. “They will call you names. They will say all manner of evil against you.”
Kayla vehemently defended her husband as “a gentleman” and a loving father. “Most important, he is a Christian,” she added, who defended traditional values.
Echoing her husband, Kayla appeared to suggest that the media and others leveled their attacks because of Moore’s conservative stances:
“The people of Alabama understand what’s going on here. My husband, judge Roy Moore, is fighting for the people of Alabama and has been fighting for over 30 years. The people of Alabama know him. They have seen what he has done. Fighting for — fighting for life. Fighting against abortion, fighting for the acknowledgment of God, fighting for traditional marriage, and fighting to protect the second Amendment. And fighting our rights given by God, protected by our Constitution. So the liberal press — Washington Post — who endorsed Hillary Clinton, who also endorsed our opponent, gets involved in this race along with the Human Rights Campaign, the [Democratic National Committee], and the Washington establishment.”
Watch her comments below, via CNN.
