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AL.com reports: In an impassioned letter released exclusively today to AL.com, Leigh Corfman, who accused Roy Moore of undressing her when she was 14 and he was 32, demanded the Republican Senate candidate stop calling her a liar, and attacking her character and end his “smears and false denials.” AL.com received a copy of the letter in person from Corfman. …

The Birmingham News reports: Thousands of felons across Alabama have registered to vote in recent weeks, according to Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, who is heading up a statewide effort to get felons to the voting booth. Glasgow’s goal is to get as many felons as possible signed up to vote before the deadline to be able to cast a ballot in …

Confirmation of last week’s report by the New York Times. The Washington Post reports: President Trump has expressed certainty that the special-counsel probe into his campaign’s possible collusion with Russia will be finished by the end of the year, complete with an exoneration from Robert S. Mueller III, according to several friends who have spoken with him in recent days. …

According to the far-right Federalist, Christians should feel comfortable voting for “morally questionable” candidates like Roy Moore because “God uses evil men to carry out his purposes.” Seriously. An excerpt: Just go back to the Old Testament and see how he used secular leaders. God employed foreign kings to bring about his purposes of rebuilding the holy site of Jerusalem. …

CNN reports: Senate candidate Roy Moore said at a campaign event Monday that the sexual allegations he faces are “completely false” and “malicious,” and said he doesn’t know any of the women levying them. The Alabama Republican compared the allegations to the probe into 2016 Russian meddling in the US election and potential connections between President Donald Trump’s campaign and …

Fox News reports: Campaign staffers for Senate candidate Roy Moore late Monday night got into a scuffle with two Fox News camera crews prior to a rally in the town of Henagar, Ala. Organizers told the media that Moore was expected to use the front entrance at the Henagar Community Center and the cameras were stationed outside, Fox News’ Jonathan …

Via Mediaite: On Monday night, Seth Meyers ripped President Trump, who he believes will go down as the “neediest and the most insecure president.” The Late Night host then slammed the president for questioning the authenticity of the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape. “Wait, you’re claiming that the Access Hollywood tape is fake?!?” Meyers said in shock. “Are you insane?!?… Oh, …

The Hill reports: GOP Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said on Monday that he did not vote for Republican nominee Roy Moore in the state’s Senate special election. “No, no, no, I voted absentee. I didn’t vote for him. I voted for a distinguished Republican write-in,” Shelby told reporters when asked if he would vote for Moore, who has been accused …

In case you weren’t watching live: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dodged multiple questions on Monday about whether President Trump has privately said that the infamous “Access Hollywood” recording of him is not authentic. “The president addressed this, this was litigated and certainly answered during the election by the overwhelming support for the president and the fact he’s …

The Washington Post reports: Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is using a new television ad to push back on allegations of sexual misconduct against him. In the new ad, an announcer says Moore is being hit by “false allegations” in a “scheme by liberal elites and the Republican establishment” to sink his candidacy for U.S. Senate. The ad does …

The Hill reports: CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Monday clashed with a Breitbart editor who used a Ringo Starr song to defend Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct toward teenaged women. “You know, in 1973, Ringo Starr hit No. 1 on the billboard charts with the song ‘You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine,’” Breitbart editor Joel …

Per the Associated Press, the White House today announced that Trump will not do as he did for Sen. Luther Strange and campaign in person for Roy Moore. This comes despite Trump’s multiple denouncements of Democrat Doug Jones as being everything but an open communist. As of today, Real Clear Politics shows Jones with a very slim lead in their …

CNN reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham bemoaned President Donald Trump’s support for Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore on Sunday, calling the move a lose-lose situation. “If he wins, we get the baggage of him winning, and it becomes a story every day about whether or not you believe the women or Roy Moore, should he stay in the Senate, should …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his support for embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, taking to Twitter to disparage Moore’s opponent, Democrat Doug Jones. Against the wishes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other top Republicans, the president decided last week to take Moore’s side amid mounting allegations of sexual …

In a report on how Trump’s support for Roy Moore has handed the Democrats a juicy midterms talking point, the New York Times reveals this nugget: Something deeper has been consuming Mr. Trump. He sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he boasted about …

The Washington Post reports: Senate candidate Roy Moore’s campaign refused Wednesday to substantiate a key claim it made as part of an effort to raise doubts about one of the Alabama candidate’s accusers. The campaign has claimed to have found documents that show Leigh Corfman lived more than a mile from the intersection where she said Moore picked her up …

The Columbus Dispatch reports: The Republican Liberty Caucus of Ohio has joined those criticizing the sexual behavior of former Rep. Wes Goodman, R-Cardigan, and what it portrayed as his enablers. The caucus, which describes itself as the “philosophical core” of the Republican Party, issued a statement Wednesday “to set the record straight on where we stand today.” “Last week, Wes …

The Washingtonian reports: John Rogers has resigned as communications director from Roy Moore’s Senate campaign, according to a source familiar with the matter. Reached by phone on Wednesday, Rogers confirmed his resignation. He declined to comment further. The move comes as allegations of sexual misconduct against the Alabama Republican continue to roil his campaign. Moore has denied those allegations, but …

Mediaite reports: Doug Jones‘ Senate campaign has released a new ad with a very simple, yet remarkably strong and direct statement about Roy Moore and his alleged sexual abuse against minors. The new ad lists all the women who have come forward in the last few weeks with claims of Moore’s misconduct towards them when they were young girls. The …

From the New York Daily News: Nothing’s worse than a liberal Democrat, according to President Trump — not even an accused sexual molester like Roy Moore. Trump all but endorsed the Alabama Republican’s Senate bid on Tuesday, as the President made his first direct remarks on the sexual misconduct allegations against Moore that surfaced nearly two weeks ago. “Roy Moore …