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National Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called on Moore to step aside in the wake of the sexual misconduct accusations, but Moore remained defiant. Republican senators from Jeff Flake of Arizona to Lindsey Graham of South Carolina expressed views that Moore is not fit to serve, and Flake went so far as to donate $100 to the Jones campaign.
Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said prior to the vote that even if Moore should win the election, he should be expelled from the United States Senate.
Shelby, Alabama's senior senator, was particularly outspoken about not backing Moore.
\"I wouldn't vote for Roy Moore. I think the Republican Party can do better,\" Shelby said Sunday on CNN.
But despite the allegations and widespread backlash against Moore, Jones faced an uphill battle in a state that Trump won by over 20 points in 2016.
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Moore strongly embraced the president, and painted Jones, who was appointed as a U.S. attorney by Bill Clinton in 1997, as too liberal on issues such as illegal immigration, abortion and same-sex marriage.
Jones, in turn, pitched himself as a politician who would reach across party lines, and ran a campaign focused on turning out African American voters and Alabama Republicans skeptical of the former chief justice both before and after the allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced.
This past weekend Jones campaigned across the state with numerous high-profile African-American politicians, including Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Alabama's only Democrat in the House, Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala.
Jones further saved his fiercest attacks on Moore for the final weeks of the campaign.
“I damn sure believe that I have done my part to ensure that men who hurt little girls should go to jail and not the U.S. Senate,\" Jones said at a campaign rally in Birmingham last week.
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