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major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: all eyes are on alabama today as voters choose their next senator in a special election. it was supposed to be a little- noticed race with no real competition. but as john yang reports, due to state politics and sexual misconduct claims, the race between republican roy moore and democrat doug jones has come down to the wire. yang: embattled republican senate candidate roy moore saddled up today, going on horseback to vote at the fire station in gallant. moore was asked if he had a message for the multiple women who have accused him of sexual misconduct when they were teenagers, moore replied: tell the truth. he also had a message for alabamians. i think they oughta go out and vote their conscience
happens? woodruff: all that and more, on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: all eyes tonight are on alabama. the polls are closed, but we are still waiting for results in the special election for u.s. senate. with 15% reporting, republican roy moore has 50% democrat doug jones has 49% it was originally expected to be a little-noticed race with no real competition, but as john yang reports, due to state politics and sexual misconduct claims, the race between republican roy moore and democrat doug jones has come down to the wire. yang: embattled republican senate candidate roy moore saddled up today, going on horseback to vote at the fire station in gallant, alabama. moore was asked if he had a me
dominated the debate in terms of putting mike pence whose tone throughout i thought was excellent. but put him on defensive, i don t believe you ll defend donald trump and then everything he said about donald trump was true. and he was right. mike pence did not defend him. he made the best case he could. i thought pence made good he was put in defensive trying to which he refused to do. woodruff: amy walter did you say tim kaine putting governor pence on the defensive? i think we re going to have to figure out as people start to digest this, what folks are going to remember more about this debate. whether it was kaine interrupting to put him on the defensive. which if you just judged by twitter and people sort of keying in, they found that a little over the top. too much time interimming not enough time interrupting not tough time talking about the issues. it is true, though, that while kaine definite ly threw all of trumps past statements at pence he found way to d