Roy Moore, brash conservative, wins Alabama Republican Senate primary over Trump-endorsed candidate

WASHINGTON - Former state Chief Justice Roy Moore won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Alabama on Tuesday as voters brushed aside pleas from President Donald Trump and millions in ads from establishment Republicans and chose a brash and controversial conservative.

Moore defeated Sen. Luther Strange, who had been appointed to the seat in April by GOP Gov. Robert J. Bentley to replace Jeff Sessions when he became attorney general.

At the time, Bentley was under threat of impeachment because of a sex scandal, and he resigned days after appointing Strange. Throughout the campaign, Strange, who was state attorney general before being appointed