Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican facing allegations of a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in 1979, is using them to fundraise for his campaign.The allegations against Moore were detailed in a bombshell report from the Washington Post, which interviewed three other women who said Moore approached them when they were teenagers and he was in his early 30s.Read more: Alabama’s Roy Moore accused of molesting 14-year-old girlMoore denied the allegations, calling them “completely false” and “a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign.”Now he appears to be marketing them. In an email obtained by Politico, Moore alerted his supporters that “the Obama-Clinton Machine’s liberal media lapdogs just launched the most vicious and nasty round of attacks against me I’ve EVER faced.”“The forces of evil will lie, cheat, steal — even inflict physical harm — if they believe it will silence and shut up Christian conservatives like you and me,” he added. “Their goal is to frustrate and slow down our campaign’s progress to help the Obama-Clinton Machine silence our conservative message. That’s why I must be able to count on the help of God-fearing conservatives like you to stand with me at this critical moment.”A weak chorus of Republican lawmakers are urging Moore to drop of out of Alabama’s special election for which he is a front-runner Senate candidate.“The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying,” John McCain said in a statement Thursday. “He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they can be proud of.”Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell also called on Moore to withdraw from the election — with a caveat. “If these allegations are true, he must step aside,” McConnell said in a statement.But a consultant of Moore’s, Brett Doster, told the New York Times that Moore would “absolutely not” withdraw from the special election, calling the charges “a fabricated November surprise.”
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