GOP strategist: Mitch McConnell should refuse Roy Moore a Senate seat -- even if he wins in Alabama
Republican strategist Evan Siegfried speaks to MSNBC (Screen capture)
November 12, 2017
Republican strategist Evan Siegfried said on MSNBC Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should refuse to seat Alabama ex-Chief Justice Roy Moore even if Moore does win the special election in December.
McConnell said he is willing to lose the Senate seat to a Democrat rather than have a child sexual predator in his caucus, which Siegfried applauded, but then said, "I wish Mitch McConnell would go a step further and say he wouldn't seat him if he won."
"There's a lot of talk about innocent until proven guilty," Siegfried continued, "but this isn't a court of law, this is a political opinion and what we stand for as a party."
Saying that it would be better to have a child sexual predator in the Senate than a Democrat, the strategist said, is putting party over country and is "a cancer" on the GOP.
Moore has come under fire this week after a bombshell Washington Post article leveled accusations against him of making sexual advances toward underage girls.
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