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applegrove

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Sun Dec 10, 2017, 10:32 PM Dec 2017

Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby: "I couldn't vote for Roy Moore."

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1723018

By Hunter

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Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby is nobody's notion of a Republican-lite. He's a loyal soldier in the Republican battle to do every little thing they insist on doing. Nobody will ever mistake him for being a moderate on, well, anything.

But Sen. Richard Shelby is, presumably, more aware than the rest of us on just what the implications will be for his already-beleaguered home state if his state's Republican voters saddle him with a Senate compatriot revealed to be an actual child molester, and Sen. Richard Shelby is out.

The Alabama Republican said he's already cast his ballot, and that he chose a write-in candidate.

"I'd rather see the Republican win, but I'd rather see a Republican write-in. I couldn't vote for Roy Moore. I didn't vote for Roy Moore," Shelby told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." [...]



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