PHOENIX—Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake was caught on an open microphone saying that the GOP is “toast” if it follows President Donald Trump and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. Flake was talking to the mayor of the Phoenix suburb of Mesa offstage Friday after speaking at a town hall session for aerospace company workers. He apparently didn’t know the microphone attached to his lapel was still on when he said, “(If we) become the party of Roy Moore and Donald Trump, we are toast.”TV stations at the event picked up his comment. Flake’s office told KNXV-TV that the Arizona senator said “if we” before the Phoenix station’s cameras started but that it had nothing more to add. Flake made a surprised expression when someone pointed out the microphone afterward.

Source: thestar November 19, 2017 02:53 UTC