Alabama state rep: GOP withdrawing support from Roy Moore are ‘cowards’

An Alabama state representative called Republicans who have dropped their support of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore over recent allegations “cowards” in an interview with CNN on Friday.

State Rep. Ed Henry (R) said it was “sad” to see how many Republicans were abandoning Moore in the face of the allegations. The Washington Post reported this week that a woman said Moore initiated sexual contact with her in 1979, when she was 14 years old and he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney.

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“It’s sad that we have that many cowards in Washington, D.C.,” Henry said. “They are going to allow … and maybe they don’t know Roy Moore well enough, and if that’s the case they shouldn’t have ever endorsed him to begin with, or be considering to endorse him.”

“But if you really believe that this is a good man, and you’re going to allow simply the allegation, no evidence, no corroboration, then, and you’re gonna withdraw your support and you’re an elected official, then I feel you’re a coward,” he continued.

Two GOP senators, Mike Lee (Utah) and Steve Daines (Mont.) unendorsed Moore on Friday, but Republicans within the state have rallied around Moore following the report.

Henry’s comments come just a day after another state official, Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler, said there was “nothing to see here,” regarding the allegations.

“There is nothing to see here,” Zeigler said Thursday. “The allegations are that a man in his early 30s dated teenage girls. Even the Washington Post report says that he never had sexual intercourse with any of the girls and never attempted sexual intercourse.”

Moore has denied the accusations, charging they are the result of collusion between The Washington Post and Doug Jones, his Democratic challenger in December’s special election.

“I believe they are politically motivated. I believe they are brought only to stop a very successful campaign, and that’s what they are doing. I’ve never known this woman,” Moore said Friday in an interview with Sean Hannity.

“These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign,” Moore said in an earlier statement Thursday.