Breitbart editor: Moore was a ‘weak candidate’

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Breitbart News’s top editor slammed former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore in an interview published Wednesday, calling him a “weak candidate” despite Breitbart’s ardent support for the Republican.

Top Breitbart editor Alex Marlow told CNN in an interview published Wednesday that he was not surprised by the Democratic upset in the deep-red state. 

“I wasn’t actually as shocked as people would think,” Marlow told CNN, citing the sexual misconduct allegations against Moore.

{mosads}Marlow defended the right-wing website’s coverage of the election, which included running a story pre-empting the one in The Washington Post that detailed the first wave of sexual misconduct allegations. Breitbart also dispatched reporters to Alabama to discredit the Moore accusations.

“I think they want to create a standard where President Trump, either from past or future accusations, will not be able to match whatever standard is now in place for who can be a United States senator,” Marlow said. “Based off not any sort of conviction or any sort of admission of guilt, but based off of purely allegations.”

Marlow said Breitbart would not change its methods, despite the Democratic victory and the heavy blow dealt to Breitbart executive Stephen Bannon, who backed Moore in the GOP primary.

Bannon, who served in the White House as a strategist to Trump until August, stumped for Moore at election events and attempted to rally GOP voters around the former judge, despite the mounting allegations against him.

Tags Alabama Senate race Alex Marlow Breitbart Breitbart News Donald Trump Roy Moore Roy Moore Steve Bannon

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