leigh corfman, beverly young nelson, gloria thaker deason, gena richardson, wendy miller, kelly harrison, and the list is growing. they were girls when roy moore immorally pursued them. now they are women, witnesses to us all of his disturbing conduct. will we make their abuser a u.s. senator? it s a powerful spot by any measure. and with that somber roll call of names democrat doug jones is launching another attack on his opponent in this alabama senate race. that ad is the second like it in just two days time. in all nine women have come forward with sexual misconduct claims against republican roy moore. they date back decades. some of the women were underage at the time. moore, we should note, denies all the allegations and maintains there are politically motivated. he hasn t appeared in public since last thursday. and his campaign tells nbc news
good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. one day after getting a de facto endorsement from the president, roy moore is in trouble in alabama. polls show the sexual misconduct allegations against moore, which include alleged sexual assault and molestation of teenagers are having an impact on his bid to be alabama s next u.s. senator. moore now statistically tied with his democratic opponent, doug jones, in a deep red state that donald trump won by almost 30 points. just before the allegations were first revealed, moore had been leading the same poll by 11%. a double-digit margin effectively erased in just two weeks. meanwhile, after largely holding their fire on allegations against moore, today the jones campaign released a new web video naming moore s accusers. leigh corfman, beverly nelson, gloria thacker deeson, gena richardson, wendy miller, kelly harrison thorp.
provocative argument against moore in a new web video his campaign released just today. it s pretty powerful. let s watch. leigh corfman, beverly young nelson, debbie wesson gibson, gloria thacker deeson, gena richardson, wendy miller, kelly harrison thorpe, and the list is growing. they were girls when roy moore immorally pursued them. now they are women, witnesses to us all of his disturbing conduct. will we make their abuser a u.s. senator? let me go back to robert costa. if again, the man for understanding the president personally. do you think the president s squirming about this personally? and i know he s out there saying this is false testimony, it s political, held-timed for that. and you know he s argued that the timing is disturbing, but the charges in themselves seem very credible and they make this guy look like some character out of some horror movie.
addresses that very clearly. reporter: but can we hear him say? it can we hear him say it? my question ending the news conference. moore and his wife, kayla, walking out. and we followed them. are your accusers lying, judge? reporter: moore staying silent. dodging questions by escaping into a kitchen. his allies outraged, lashing out at reporters. you are the fake, lying news from the swamp. reporter: moore has tried to push past the allegations, but new ones pop up nearly every day. the latest, from the washington post. gena richardson says she was a teenage girl, around 18 years old, when roy moore approached her at the local mall where she was working. she says he introduced himself, asked where she went to school, and asked for her phone number. no , she says she told him. my dad is so strict. a few days later, richardson says she was sitting in trigonometry class when she was called to the principal s office. she tells the post she was startled, and thought maybe
they re caught in politics and what they re caught in the wm republican and conservative women, i think, of alabama, are going to have to stand up and say, you know what, no more. stop this. we can do better than this. if you don t believe the women now numbering more than ten, just read the level of detail in the washington post story, they talk about the gadsden mall and sears department store having to hide young women who worked at sears in the stock room when roy moore showed up because they knew what he was there to do. and the stories are corroborated in realtime by friends, by gena richardson and others, by their mother who is they told in realtime and just didn t make public because roy moore was powerful and they were shamed and all the things we know are true in stories like this. yeah. so for you to disbelieve all of this takes a level of, boy, i don t know, protecting the tribe. yeah. protecting roy moore at a cost of these young girls being preyed upon by an o