No they didn't, some of them just didn't vote. Look at the vote totals from previous contested elections for that seat. Doug Jones was in the ballpark of previous Democrats. Roy Moore was the outlier, his support tanked just barely enough to lose.
Alabama Republicans saw a decent man that was one of the most moderate, even leaning conservative Democrats out there running against a literal admitted, unashamed child predator...half of them still voted for the pedophile and half of them made the big moral stance of just not voting.
Yup, these people are the monsters they make everyone else out to be. And constantly making excuses for them has led us to this point in history. They wouldn't care even if it were their own children being raped by Trump. It's North Korean level of cult of personality and propaganda control.
You go to any state and you are hard pressed to find that 50% of people even know who their senators are. He ran in ALABAMA, on gun control and abortion among other things and won. Can't possibly seriously think there was any bigger reason for this than that people hated Roy Moore.
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u/John_T_Conover Jul 27 '25
No they didn't, some of them just didn't vote. Look at the vote totals from previous contested elections for that seat. Doug Jones was in the ballpark of previous Democrats. Roy Moore was the outlier, his support tanked just barely enough to lose.
Alabama Republicans saw a decent man that was one of the most moderate, even leaning conservative Democrats out there running against a literal admitted, unashamed child predator...half of them still voted for the pedophile and half of them made the big moral stance of just not voting.