mountainbrook haven t liked roy moore since 1995. people in vestavia haven t liked him. he s too radical. they don t like the fact that he doesn t follow the law. so a lot of people, you saw on the exit polls, they had made their minds up even before the washington post stories broke. here you go. 57% have made this up. made their minds up before november. so this also, roy jones, i mean, roy jones, i m thinking of pensacola here. roy moore owns a lot of this himself. roy moore has never been a strong general election candidate in alabama. he only eeked be i in 2012. his supreme court election. then mitt romney won by a wider margin even. i saw roy moore on his horse riding to the polls. so uncomfortable that poor horse. yep. totally off balance, he did not look like a southern
this is a brutal reminder that candidate quality matters regardless of where you re running. not only did steve bannon cost us a critical senate seat in one of the most republican states in the country but he also dragged the president of the united states into his fiasco. so, yamiche, a lot of finger pointing this morning. steve bannon was up on the stage, getting ready to take credit for that victory. now he s running for the hills. you ll see a lot of blame. president trump in the tweets he s doing this morning, reckoning with his own sense of failure. he was really haunted, i think, by his endorsement of luther strange that then felt flat. when roy moore won that primarily he wanted to follow the will of the people. president trump has almost lost control of his own messaging. that this idea that steve bannon is now the one that will be the puppeteer, picking candidates and whispering in the president s ear saying this is what you need to do. president trump is not trusting his g
business being on a horse, riding a horse and any more than he does being in the u.s. senate. yep. especially if you look at the very beginning of that video, if we could roll it at the top again. people of alabama spoke and i think sassy has spoken as well by making it very clear she does not want that man by the way, with regard to the cowboy hat. look at this. look at this. nobody nobody no true cowboy that s animal abuse. wears a cowboy hat inside. that goes for sheriff clarke, too. all these wacko cowboys we have projected into our national discussion in life, you don t wear a western hat inside. thank you, sassy. sorry about what happened to you. senator cory gardner, leading the republican s 2018 senate campaign effort and who spoke out strongly against moore had this clever statement on doug jones victory last night. quote, tonight s results are clear.
a no-win situation coming into this. i would argue for anybody that s tuning in, thinking that anybody here is gloating about republicans losing. no, actually the worst thing i would argue that could ever happen to my former porte whafb in mitch mcconnell and good people, good republicans had to wres welwhat they were going to do with roy moore. this may actually be a blessing in disguise for the gop. they dodged a bull net a way. it s a sat dade no for a conservative, it s a good day when you say it s a bad day for the party. i m not sure it s a bad day. the party wants its soul back, it has to do the right thing. they lost a senate seat. the senate is in play in 2018. it probably wasn t before. republicans had a terrible turn jut problem. they are very despirited. republicans are not turning out. that s what happened in alabama in new jersey, virginia and
you to get a friend, get the family, and bring them out to vote for big luther strange. roy moore has won the republican nomination for senate defeating the incumbent, the man donald trump campaigned for, luther strange. get out and vote for roy moore. do it. do it. and nbc news is now calling doug jones the apparent winner in this special senate election in alabama. oh, yeah. president trump handed his second political defeat. mika is wearing crimson. i am. it is sweet home alabama day. wearing a crimson tide, tie. that wasn t intentional. but it worked out that way. well, ronald reagan, the