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Mitch McConnell calls on Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore to ‘step aside’ after sexual misconduct allegations

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama “should step aside” in light of allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl decades ago.

Speaking to reporters after visiting a plant in Kentucky, McConnell said he believes the women who were quoted in a Washington Post story about Moore’s past relationships with them as young women.

Previously, McConnell had said Moore should step aside if the allegations proved to be true.

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He said Republicans are looking at a write-in option in Alabama.

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