GOP Finger-Pointing Starts Right After Moore's Defeat in Alabama
GOP Finger-Pointing Starts Right After Moore’s Defeat in Alabama
Loss to Democrat leaves GOP nervous before 2018 elections
Pro- and anti-establishment Republican wings blame each other
By Laurie Asseo and Margaret Talev December 13, 2017, 9:11 AM CST
The Republican finger-pointing started minutes after GOP candidate Roy Moore lost to a Democrat in deep-red Alabama’s Senate race, with nervous party members fearing more of the same in the 2018 election might take away their majorities in Congress.
“Congratulations to the Bannon wing of the @GOP for gifting a seat to @SenateDems in one of the reddest states,” Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo of Florida wrote on Twitter Wednesday, referring to Moore backer Steve Bannon, the anti-establishment ally of President Donald Trump. “You have no future in our country’s politics.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who opposed Moore, was blamed by an adviser to the pro-Trump Great American Alliance. “Mitch McConnell and the Republican establishment got their wish: they successfully delivered Alabama to a liberal Democrat,” said adviser Andy Surabian.
Republican Representative Peter King of New York accused Bannon of demeaning the government and the political process. “This guy does not belong on the national stage" and looks like a "disheveled drunk," King said in an interview with CNN Wednesday. Although Bannon goes out of his way to put on an "everyman" image, he is in fact a "Goldman Sachs millionaire," King said.
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