And on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) got even more bad news: An anti-gay, Islamophobic former judge easily won the Senate GOP nomination in Alabama. McConnell bet large against Roy Moore, a controversial conservative who trounced establishment favorite Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) by repeatedly bashing McConnell’s leadership. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both campaigned for the incumbent senator in Alabama. Asked whether he worried that Moore’s victory could lead to more primary challenges to GOP incumbents, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) “I think we can do a lot more if we’re in the majority.”In 2012, national Republicans offered a very different reaction in response to another controversial Senate GOP candidate.

Source: Huffington Post September 27, 2017 21:00 UTC