Fox’s Gregg Jarrett: Moore is not fit to serve in the Senate

Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett called for Alabama voters to reject GOP candidate Roy Moore in the upcoming Senate special election.

In an op-ed published Tuesday on Fox’s website, Jarrett calls Moore “political poison” and urges Moore to drop out of the race.

“If Moore has a conscience, he will do what is right — quit the race to be the next U.S. senator from Alabama,” Jarrett writes. “But he won’t do it, of course. His record shows that he rarely does the right thing. He is consistently self-absorbed and self-righteous — a man full of guile, but not an ounce of shame.”

Jarrett writes that the mounting allegations against Moore are “compelling” and “have the ring of truth,” while “Moore’s denials do not.”

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Jarrett specifically points to a recent NBC interview with Leigh Corfman, who, he writes, “makes a powerful and compelling case that Moore sexually assaulted her when she was a 14-year-old child.”

Nine women have come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct by Moore, including assault. Many of the women said the incidents occurred when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s.

Moore has denied the allegations, but Jarrett writes that Moore’s conflicting explanations and defenses are evidence that he is lying.

Between the numerous allegations and Moore’s record as an Alabama judge, Jarrett writes that Moore, a former state Supreme Court chief justice twice removed for refusing to follow federal court orders, would be “destructive, not constructive” as a senator. Jarrett was critical of Moore as a candidate prior to the allegations.

He adds that Moore “should be repudiated by voters” on Dec. 12, when he faces off against Democrat Doug Jones for the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“[Moore] pretends to embrace the law,” Jarrett writes. “But in truth, he has shown nothing but contempt for the rule of law whenever it fails to conform to his own religiously driven interpretation. On this basis alone, Roy Moore is not fit to serve in the United States Senate. The appalling accusations of sexual assault and harassment only reinforce that conclusion.”