Roy Moore’s wife: We can’t be anti-Semitic, because ‘one of our attorneys is a Jew’

Allies of President Donald Trump turned out Monday night in support of Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama, hours before polls open.

• The wife of embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore responded to claims of anti-Semitism during an election-eve rally on Monday night.
• Kayla Moore insisted that neither she, nor her husband are against Jews because one of their lawyers is Jew.
• The special-election for an open Senate seat in Alabama comes crashing to and end after the race garnered international attention due to multiple accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against Roy Moore.

Kayla Moore, the wife of the embattled Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, responded to allegations of anti-Semitism during a final campaign rally on Monday night.

“Fake news would tell you that we don’t care for Jews. One of our attorneys is a Jew,” the candidate’s wife said. In response to her husband’s wistful remarks about slavery, Moore said, “We have many friends who are black.”

Watch the moment below:

Allies of President Donald Trump turned out Monday night in support of Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama, as voters prepared to head to the polls in a race that has garnered international attention.

The “drain the swamp” rally featured remarks from former White House strategist Steve Bannon and David Clarke, the former Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, sheriff who was a prominent, yet controversial, fixture during Trump’s 2016 election campaign.

The event was both a morale-building exercise for Moore’s staunchest supporters — Alabama voters miffed with the national media coverage of the Senate race — and a group castigation of Moore’s critics, both Republican and Democrat.

“There’s a special place in hell for Republicans who should know better,” Bannon told the crowd, after calling out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, Condoleezza Rice and “little Bobby Corker,” the senator from Tennessee — all of whom have denounced Moore in varying degrees recently.

The race in Alabama remained tight right down to the last hours before voters head to the polls — even as the story gained national and international attention. A RealClearPolitics average of several polls showed Moore leading Jones by just over 2 percentage points, but experts have said the race would be tough to predict before Election Day.