NASHVILLE – U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said Wednesday that Alabama Republican Roy Moore’s Senate race loss is “good for America” as well as the Republican Party so “that people understand this kind of beyond-the-pale extremism just is not going to elect Republicans to office.”
“Look, the voters of Alabama have to be disappointed in what their primaries produced,” Corker said in a telephone interview. “Any normal person who could have just put one foot in front of the other during this campaign would have won, hands down.”
Unofficial results from the special election show Democrat Doug Jones upsetting Moore by 52-48 percent in the staunchly Republican state, which has not elected a Democrat to the Senate in some 25 years.
Moore, an attorney and former Alabama Supreme Court judge, was battling accusations that while still in his 30s he had dated teenagers, pursued sexual relations with some, while one woman, now an adult, said he touched her in a sexual manner when she was 14.
At the same time, Moore’s stances on some positions were controversial.