Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, in his final campaign appearance before Tuesday's GOP Senate runoff, encouraged his supporters to send the Washington, D.C. political establishment a message on Tuesday by voting him into office.
Moore, the populist candidate who was removed as judge twice for standing behind his social crusades, also said that Republican Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell "needs to be replaced" as the Senate Majority Leader.
"For whatever reason, God has put me in this election at this time and all of the nation is watching," said Moore, before a large crowd inside a rustic assembly hall at the Oak Hollow Farms south of Fairhope. The election pits Moore against Senator Luther Strange, with the winner facing Democrat Doug Jones in the Dec. 12 general election.
Moore was joined at the campaign rally by some far-right heavy hitters including British politician and conservative commentator Nigel Farage, who is known as "Mr. Brexit." Farage led the successful June 2016 referendum in the United Kingdom to break away from the European Union.
"He's not going to be sucked into the swamp," Farage said of Moore. "He will not be beholden to anyone. Someone like him (will help) to rejuvenate the movement that led to Brexit in 2016."
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http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/09/post_111.htmlSo somehow God has chosen him. Whatever.
