Roy Moore is running for Alabama's Senate seat -- again

[Polybius]

Roy Moore, whose 2017 Alabama Senate campaign imploded amid allegations of sexual assault, resulting in the first Democratic victory in an Alabama Senate race since the early 1990s, has announced that he is running for the Senate, again.

In an event held in Montgomery, Alabama, on Thursday, Moore told a crowd of reporters, “Yes, I will run for the United States Senate in 2020,” adding, “Can I win? Yes, I can win.”

Moore’s decision is likely to be greeted with despair from Republicans (and perhaps some optimism from Democrats). Even many conservatives who supported Moore’s 2017 campaign initially now believe that the former chief justice of the state Supreme Court could act as a millstone on Senate Republicans and their hopes to retain control of that body of Congress in 2020.

Alabama is as red as they come — the state’s partisan lean, a metric of how much more Republican (or Democratic) a state is than the country as a whole, is R+27. And Alabama Republicans believe they have a stable of candidates who each could defeat Democratic Sen. Doug Jones. But Moore is still popular with some Alabama conservatives, and some in the GOP relieved by his 2017 loss could have real regret over the risk of losing another easy-to-win Senate seat.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18691572/roy-moore-alabama-senate-run-2019

Article is two weeks old, but I missed it the first time around. I wonder if he can beat Mo Brooks...

[Wounded Bear]

1. The sad part is that he could win...

Hope this works out. Perhaps a damaging Repub primary for a change?

[Polybius]

2. I agree

I'm on the fence about who I hope wins the Republican primary. Should I hope it's Moore, who's the best chance for Jones to beat? Or do I hope it's a regular Bush-type Republican (Luther Strange maybe?), who would easily beat Jones? Ugg...