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Roy Moore Presents Republicans With a Familiar Dilemma

A month to go before the election, a controversial outsider candidate, and a report alleging sexual impropriety—what will the GOP do this time?
Source: James Lawler Duggan / Reuters

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Republican candidate, widely loathed by the party establishment and known for his inflammatory comments, has defeated rivals more embedded in the party hierarchy. Now, about a month until election day, accusations of sexual impropriety have upended his campaign.

That is, of course, where things stood a little more than a year ago, when first published a tape in which Donald Trump boasted about sexually assaulting women. , where the has just published a featuring four women who say that GOP nominee Roy Moore pursued them when they were younger

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