POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump sought to boost Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by releasing a recorded phone call on his behalf in the final stretch of a bitter Alabama election fight marked by accusations of sexual misconduct against Moore.
Moore, 70, a conservative Christian and former Alabama Supreme Court justice, will face off in Tuesday’s [12-12-17] election against Democrat Doug Jones, 63, a former U.S. attorney.
On Monday, the eve of the election, the Moore campaign is rolling out a ‘robo-call’ with Trump’s voice telling voters that if they do not support the Republican candidate, progress on his agenda will be ‘stopped cold.’
Democrats then decided to make robo-calls using two of their party’s own big guns – former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
The race has divided Trump’s Republican Party and given Democrats a rare opening in deeply conservative Alabama, which has sent only Republicans to the U.S. Senate for the past 20 years.”
-Andy Sullivan, “Trump makes ‘robo-call’ for Moore as Democrat Jones takes lead in Alabama race,” Reuters, Dec. 11, 2017 03:07am