US President Donald Trump laments the loss of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, an accused child molester, yet asserting that it proves him “right.”
“I wish we would have gotten the seat,” he told reporters at the White House on Wednesday, after Democrat Doug Jones secured most of the votes in the Senate race in Alabama.
The Republican president added that, “A lot of Republicans feel differently, they’re very happy with the way it turned out… But I would have, as the leader of the party, I would have liked to have had the seat. I want to endorse the people that are running.”
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