The R party machine will do anything to take that seat, they know how bad the map is everywhere else in 2020

Won’t take much to split their vote.

Than if he got the nomination outright

I think instead they'll set their sights on dropping voters from the rolls and good 'ol fashioned oppression at the polling places to win Ol' Roy the seat.

Criminal conviction has a pretty high bar to convict.

We have plenty to show at minimum a creepy and inappropriate interest on his part, but not hard proof of actual sexual acts with a someone under age. The low (16) age of consent in Alabama complicates it as well.

It's wasn't and still isn't illegal for a man in his 30's to lurk at the mall, flirt with teenage girls, and ask them out. It's creepy as hell, but it isn't a crime in and of itself.

I wouldn't be surprised if he took his show on the road, once he started to attract attention locally. Overnight trips to Atlanta, Nashville, or some such place, where he wouldn't be recognized. There, he could pay for young women who either were underage, or who looked like it.

He wants to win a statewide race for vindication. His fundy knuckle draggers will always vote for him.