Conservative Judge Roy Moore wins in Republican Senate primary in Alabama despite Trump support for rival
By Julio Severo
Conservative Christian jurist Roy
Moore won the Alabama Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday,
defeating an appointed incumbent backed by President Donald Trump.
Throughout the campaign, Moore
argued the election was an opportunity to send a message to the “elite
Washington establishment,” which spent an estimated $9 million trying to secure
the nomination for Strange.
Moore was twice elected chief
justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and twice removed from those duties for
his conservative Christian stances. In 2003, he was removed from office because
he refused a federal judge’s order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from
the state courthouse lobby. Last year, he was permanently suspended because he
opposed gay “marriage.”
Moore’s
victory will reverberate through the national Republican Party in the battle
between the party’s populist and establishment wings.
Trump,
who held a headline-generating rally in Alabama last week, supported Strange
with a Tweet sent before voting began Tuesday morning in Alabama: “Luther
Strange has been shooting up in the Alabama polls since my endorsement. Finish
the job — vote for ‘Big Luther.’” Trump tweeted support for him on multiple
occasions.
On
Monday evening, Vice President Mike Pence spoke to several hundred Strange
supporters in Birmingham, praising Strange.
Trump
and Pence made a mistake by endorsing Moore’s rival. But evangelicals, who elected Trump, did not follow his mistake.
Moore,
propelled by evangelical voters and their prayers, consolidated support from a
number of anti-establishment forces.
“All
of Washington is watching to see what Alabama does,” Moore said at a Monday
night rally in south Alabama rally attended by Breitbart director Steve Bannon,
Brexit leader Nigel Farage, and “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson.
Bannon told the crowd that the race
was an opportunity to send a message to the “Washington elites” who “think
you’re a bunch of morons.”
Even
though conservative voters are electing Republicans to defeat Democrats and
their socialist policies, elected Republicans are not fulfilling the conservative
promises of their campaigns. Conservative voters are so displeased that
they are suing the Republican Party.
“Despite voters giving Republicans
the majority in the House, the Senate and now control of the White House,
almost every promise made to voters over the last seven years has been broken
in the U.S. Senate,” said Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council
Action.
“Judge Moore was elected because he
is a promise keeper who will stand up for our Constitution,” added Perkins.
Moore is a powerful hope because
different of Republicans who break their conservative promises, he stands for
conservative Christian values even when it means to lose his job. He does not
compromise.
Even though Trump
has been elected largely by evangelicals to “drain the swamp,” his decision
to endorse Moore’s rival would help fill the swamp.
Yet, conservative evangelicals showed
that they are watching and that they will keep supporting conservative
Christians, regardless if Trump supports them or not.
Wanting or not, now Trump will have
to support Moore, after the Christian judge’s massive victory helped by
evangelical voters.
I asked my supporters in Brazil to
pray for Moore, and God has graciously heard our prayers. He is very necessary in
Washington, to represent a faithful conservative Christian testimony.
Conservative
Christian Judge Roy Moore faced powerful left-wingers, who attacked
him and his conservative Christians, including me — and he won. He was opposed by Trump and
Pence, and he won. With evangelicals supporting him and praying for him, he
will see greater victories.
May God bless America. May God
bless Moore. May God bless America through Moore. And may God grant Moore
victory in the final election next December.
Portuguese
version of this article: Juiz
conservador Roy Moore vence na eleição primária republicana para o Senado no
Alabama, apesar do apoio de Trump ao rival
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