You come back to it, if they had someone who is more of an alabama democrat, he would have been fine. But on issue set after issue set, hes a democrat and thats a problem in alabama. I hate to tell everyone that. I just dont see how how big of an issue is the abortion issue . I think its a big deal and hurt him right out of the gate and hes done very little to overcome that. He hasnt looked for issues to find Common Ground with conservatives. Now, i do think one of the things ill be watching on Election Night is Shelby County in birmingham and thats where roy moore won 63 of the vote in 2012 but lost in the primary. Thats an affluent the birmingham suburbs, thats where people thats the targetrich environment for doug jones. If hes going to win, hes got to do well there. Hes got to gin up the africanamerican vote and comments that he made about slavery and harkening back to the days of slavery when we really had family values. And then, also, hes got to get white voters and those white
and they ve been pushed by the other people to say things that are not true. who are these other people? i just i wouldn t really like to say that on tv. sure. so you think that and i think luther strange is probably behind a lot of this. there s part of you that wants to believe roy moore s denials and what he is saying about these women? i would say yes. reporter: kasie, if roy moore wins on tuesday night, he ll have run by running a ghost campaign. they have little operation and far from a robust canvassing phone-banking operation. he s running on a conspiracy and has not had a public event since tuesday. this is the last weekend before the election. usually there s a big get-out-to-vote effort. roy moore is essentially riding in to tuesday banking on the fact that republicans will come out to vote him because he s a
denials and what he is saying about these women? i would say yes. reporter: kasie, if roy moore wins on tuesday night, he ll have run by running a ghost campaign. they have little operation and far from a robust canvassing phone-banking operation. he s running on a conspiracy and has not had a public event since tuesday. this is the last weekend before the election. usually there s a big get-out-to-vote effort. roy moore is essentially riding in to tuesday banking on the fact that republicans will come out to vote him because he s a republican in alabama. kasie? vaughn hillyer, thank you. let s talk about what we heard from those women talking to vaughn. i kind of wonder if there hasn t been a pen due lum swing and when these allegations came out, a lot of times if the negative information, if you get it right before election day, people
house speaker paul ryan told reporters yesterday that he also has not changed his position on roy moore. my position has president changed. i have not changed. i think he should have dropped out. i think he should just because the polling has changed doesn t change my opinion on the matter. once again let s go to pensacola, florida where we find vaughn hilliard. good to talk to you again. it is a week before election day. what are both campaigns doing now to sway some of the remaining undecided republican voters? and this is become more of a grassroots effort. are they door knocking to get as many votes as they can? reporter: well, roy moore has nothing on the docket yet, yasmin, up until monday. this has been a very what they call an organic campaign but it s been very much of a campaign reliant on the roy moore name that the public has known here for 30 years. there is far from a robust door knocking phone banking operation. compare that to doug jones, we are told that john l
respect for private property and sound money and contract rights. [cheering] martha: this is visit to the college part of a three-stop campaign tour around his home state of texas. the lone star state s primary is set for may 29th. we ll see if he has any focus. bill: a battle for votes now as the clock ticks down, in independent s republican senate race, after 36 years in washington senator dick lugar scrambling to win the primary in independent. poll numbers show him neck in neck with his tea party-backed opponent. steve brown was in indianapolis, now back in chicago. who has the edge do you find in the ground game there, steve? reporter: it s close there, but it may be the challenging here. let s take a lock at lugar s campaign first. he has a relentless phone banking operation going on for weeks and months. they have put out 1.2 million phone calls. let that soak in for a second. not all of those calls are