“Can’t let Schumer/Pelosi win this race.”
President Donald Trump took to Twitter Sunday morning to share his thoughts, once again, on the upcoming Alabama Senate special election. And while he didn’t mention controversial Republican candidate Roy Moore by name — nor did he claim to support him — his message did not claim the opposite, either.
Rounding out his Thanksgiving day vacation at Mar-a-Lago (and marking his 103rd day spent at a Trump property as president), Trump used the microblogging platform to opine that the “last thing we need in Alabama and the U. S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet”:
The last thing we need in Alabama and the U. S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES TO THE SKY. Jones would be a disaster!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26,2017
Of note is the fact that the president doesn’t call out Republican candidate Roy Moore by name, but does reference his opponent, Doug Jones.
A few minutes later the president continued, if in a somewhat confusing manner:
I endorsed Luther Strange in the Alabama Primary. He shot way up in the polls but it wasn’t enough. Can’t let Schumer/Pelosi win this race. Liberal Jones would be BAD!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26,2017
Trump points out that the candidate he supported in the primary did not, in fact, win the election, even if he did shoot “way up in the polls.”
Trump’s marked dancing around the subject of Roy Moore is nothing new. Previously, Trump tweeted in a similar, vague manner on the subject of Moore, drawing the scrutiny of many. Additionally, the president, as he was leaving for his Thanksgiving holiday, claimed that “you have to listen” to Moore if one is also going to listen to his nay-sayers.
Moore, for his part, has said that he will not exit the Alabama special election race, even as more accusations mount against him — and key members of his campaign resign .
