Donors have expressed anger to RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel over the committee’s decision to reinstate its fundraising support for embattled Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore, Politico reported on Monday.
Donors have expressed anger to RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel over the committee’s decision to reinstate its fundraising support for embattled Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore, Politico reported on Monday.
“There are some things that are more important than a vote in the Senate,” Bobbie Kilberg, a Republican who worked for both Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, told Politico. “Some things are more important, such as what the party stands for.”
The RNC, which last month ended its fundraising agreement with Moore’s campaign over sexual misconduct allegations against the former judge, reinstated its support for the campaign afterprovided Moore with a full-throated endorsement last week.
Kilberg told Politico that McDaniel “felt it was her responsibility as chairman of the party, in agreement with the entire Alabama delegation in the House and Senate, and the Alabama RNC delegation,” to provide Moore’s campaign with fundraising help.
Sen. Cory Gardner Cory Scott GardnerDems look to use Moore against GOP McConnell: ‚No change of heart‘ on Roy Moore US trade deficit rises on record imports from China MORE (R-Colo.), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), told The Weekly Standard last week that the Senate GOP campaign arm “will never endorse” Moore.
Multiple Republicans revoked their endorsements of Moore after The Washington Post reported that a woman said she had sexual contact with Moore when she was 14 years old. Moore would have been 32 at the time, but has denied this accusation. But the newspaper also spoke to three women who said Moore made sexual advances toward them when they were between 16 and 18 years old. Other women have come forward since the Post’s initial story accusing Moore of sexual misconduct, including one who alleged Moore assaulted her when she was 16.
Moore admitted in an interview last month that he may have dated women in their later teens during that period in his life. In an interview with a local news outlet over the weekend, Moore denied dating under aged girls. The age of consent in Alabama at the time of Moore’s alleged behavior and today is 16.
Moore on Tuesday is up against Democrat Doug Jones in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP strategist donates to Alabama Democrat House passes concealed carry gun bill Rosenstein to testify before House Judiciary Committee next week MORE.
