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OnPolitics Today: Roy Moore v. the GOP

Jessica Estepa
USA TODAY
U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama Roy Moore

It's Monday, readers, and it's shaping up to be quite a week.

But honestly, when is it not? 

On that note, we present you with an entirely Roy Moore edition of OP Today, because news.

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Does anyone want Roy Moore to keep running besides Roy Moore?

On Monday, another woman stepped forward to say Senate candidate Roy Moore assaulted her when she was 16. Beverly Nelson alleged that Moore, then 30, grabbed her breasts and tried to force her head "into his crotch."

"And he looked at me and told me, 'You’re just a child, and I am the district attorney. If you tell anyone about this, no one will ever believe you," she said.

So Nelson stayed silent for 40 years, she said.

In the days since a bombshell report revealed that four women had accused Moore of pursuing relationships with them while they were teenagers — including one woman who was 14 at the time — more Republicans have called on the candidate to step aside from his campaign for Alabama's Senate seat. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believed the women who were accusing Moore, and he's considering whether anyone would be able to mount a successful write-in campaign. And Sen. Cory Gardner, the chairman of the Senate's Republican campaign arm, suggested that the Senate should consider expelling Moore if he does manage to get elected.

And Moore? Well, his campaign has continued to defend his innocence and has likened the allegations to a "witch hunt."

He isn't missing the chance to fundraise off of this, either.

"Apparently Mitch McConnell and the establishment GOP would rather elect a radical pro-abortion Democrat than a conservative Christian as the next U.S. Senator from Alabama," read an email sent Monday by Moore's campaign.

Who might donate to this campaign? Maybe the people who are destroying their Keurig machines in protest of the company for pulling its ads from Sean Hannity's show because of Hannity's coverage of the Moore scandal.

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