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On Thursday, Alabama candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore sent out a fundraising email in the wake of allegations in a Washington Post article that he was involved in sexual misconduct with minors over 30 years ago. That email and the landing page it links to include images of Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee.
The email painted a picture of attacks coming in from the left, the “Obama-Clinton machine” embodied by the Washington Post. Lee’s office has asked Moore’s campaign to remove his image from this and further campaign material. At the time this article is being written, the page still includes the Senator’s image.
It is unknown whether Cruz or Paul have made similar requests.
Ted Cruz out with a statement calling on Moore to "immediately withdraw" if allegations are true, according to @TexasTribAbby. But Moore is still fundraising using images of Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee as recently as this afternoon: https://t.co/wRsEb1MGWD pic.twitter.com/nZdvrnZ9YW
— Ben Kamisar (@bkamisar) November 9, 2017
Further Reading
Mike Lee wants Roy Moore to stop using his image on fundraising ads
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has asked Roy Moore’s team to stop using his image on their campaign fundraising materials, per The Hill. After four women accused Moore of sexual assault and misconduct (when they were teenagers), his campaign blasted fundraising ads featuring images of some of the Republican senators who endorsed him — Lee, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul specifically.
Why it matters: Multiple Republican senators and lawmakers have said Moore should step down from the Alabama Senate race if the allegations are true, and now some of them (like Lee) are trying to completely remove themselves from his campaign. It’s too late for Moore to be removed from the ballot, but responses like those from Lee show he’s quickly losing support from the GOP.
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