A national Democratic group is putting out a “predator alert” on Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore to try and convince Republican women to vote against the accused child molester on Tuesday.
American Bridge is launching a last-minute digital ad that begins with the sound of an emergency alert — and only gets darker from there.
“Roy Moore has infiltrated our Alabama communities and his rap sheet reads like a serial sexual predator,” the ad’s narrator says as prison rap sheet-like images with Moore’s face flash onscreen. “His record from the Alabama Supreme Court paints an even darker picture. Judge Moore has repeatedly sided with rapists and sexual predators. These aren’t Alabama values. On Tuesday, Dec. 12, vote no on Roy Moore.”
Nine women have accused Moore of initiating inappropriate sexual encounters, many of them when they were teenagers. One says Moore undressed both of them and put her hand on the front of his underwear when she was 14 years old, while another says she was 16 when Moore sexually assaulted her.
Moore also had a record of siding with defendants in sex crime cases while serving as a judge, according to reports.
Those accusations have consumed the race — and badly damaged Moore, creating a close race in deep red Alabama. Moore has inched ahead in recent public polls, but if Democrat Doug Jones gets enough African American support and wins over enough Republican women he could still pull off an upset on Tuesday.
The digital ad, shared first with TPM, is targeting the latter group: Republican women who don’t like President Trump. The ad has $15,000 behind it, a small but not insignificant amount for a statewide digital buy.
This story has been updated to reflect the full size of American Bridge’s ad buy.
