{"id":327650,"date":"2017-09-25T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/all-eyes-on-hot-alabama-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:48:44","slug":"all-eyes-on-hot-alabama-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/all-eyes-on-hot-alabama-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"All Eyes on Hot Alabama Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/nigel-farage\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Nigel Farage<\/a>\u00a0will speak in Fairhope, Alabama on Monday night, in support of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian has learned that the former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) will join former White House advisor\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/steve-bannon\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Steve Bannon<\/a>\u00a0and Duck Dynasty TV star Phil Robertson at an election eve rally.<\/p>\n<p>Moore, a fiery opponent of gay marriage who condemned \u201csodomy\u201d in prepared remarks in a televised debate, is in a tight race against appointed incumbent Luther Strange, for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat formerly held by Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Farage is a longtime Trump ally. He\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/aug\/24\/nigel-farage-donald-trump-mississippi-rally-appearance\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">appeared with Trump<\/a>\u00a0in an August 2016 rally in Jackson, Mississippi and\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/oct\/10\/nigel-farage-fights-donald-trumps-corner-in-post-debate-spin-room\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">appeared in the spin room<\/a>\u00a0in St Louis after the second presidential debate in October, touting Trump\u2019s performance. On the campaign trail, Farage regularly compared Trump\u2019s capture of the White House to the successful effort to push the UK out of the European Union. In return, Trump\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/nov\/22\/nigel-farage-uk-ambassador-us-donald-trump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">has urged<\/a>\u00a0prime minister Theresa May to make Farage ambassador to the US.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump has endorsed Strange, with whom he\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/sep\/23\/kim-jong-un-the-nfl-and-screaming-at-senators-donald-trumps-strange-night-in-alabama\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">appeared in Huntsville<\/a>\u00a0on Friday night. Trump sang the praises of \u201cBig Luther\u201d but conceded that his endorsement \u201cmay have been a mistake\u201d and promised to campaign with Moore if the controversial former state supreme court chief justice wins on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/specials-silver\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=silver_specials\">Buy Silver at Discounted Prices<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The race has pitted Trump against much of his support base. Moore, who has the support of Sarah Palin and former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka, among others, is a deeply controversial figure, twice removed as\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/alabama\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Alabama<\/a>\u00a0chief justice. A vocal opponent of gay rights, he has even suggested that homosexuality should be illegal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/sep\/24\/nigel-farage-alabama-roy-moore-donald-trump\"><strong>Read the&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/09\/no_author\/all-eyes-on-hot-alabama-senate-election\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Farage\u00a0will speak in Fairhope, Alabama on Monday night, in support of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. The Guardian has learned that the former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) will join former White House advisor\u00a0Steve Bannon\u00a0and Duck Dynasty TV star Phil Robertson at an election eve rally. Moore, a fiery opponent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}