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His peers don't support him...

https://www.politico.com/story...jones-alabama-287915

A small group of Alabama Republicans have joined forces with Democrat Doug Jones’ campaign ahead of Tuesday’s special Senate election. But they are having trouble swaying many friends and family members to cross the aisle, too.

Democrat Doug Jones’ campaign finance reports are dotted with longtime donors to Alabama Republicans like Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Sen. Richard Shelby and former Rep. Spencer Bachus. Republican attorneys in Birmingham and Mobile who have disliked Moore since he was a judge have banded together to offer support to Jones. The Republicans for Jones include Gina Dearborn, an Alabama lobbyist and former Shelby staffer who has backed Jones on social media and is married to White House deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn. (Dearborn did not respond to requests for comment.)

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“If you go across the state of Alabama, there's probably 30 percent who really like Roy Moore. There's about 70 percent who don't like him at all,” said David Boyett, an attorney who describes himself as a Republican aligned with Sen. John McCain but has fixed a Jones campaign sticker on his car. “But the question is how much of that 70 percent is actually going to get out. We know the 30 percent is going to get out there.”

Goodsell and others are still trying to rally support for Jones, though not without partisan pushback. Kali McNutt, a Birmingham-based entrepreneur who previously worked at the conservative Foreign Policy Initiative, has posted against Moore on Facebook — drawing a heated rebuke from her best friend’s mother, among others.

Goodsell has found more success among fellow lawyers, some of whom have been watching Moore warily for years in state and local courts.

“Before any of the recent scandal came up I think Roy Moore was not particularly well regarded in the state bar,” Goodsell said. “I'm a lawyer and I don't really have much respect for other lawyers that don't seem to respect the rule of law. I think that's probably a very prevalent opinion among his peers in the state.”

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“I certainly wouldn't label myself as a Democrat now but I'm certainly voting for the best candidate in the upcoming election and he happens to be a Democrat,” said Ferrell Anders, an attorney and one-time aide to former Rep. Jack Edwards (R-Ala.). Anders has donated to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and ex-Rep. Jo Bonner’s campaigns in the past, but he found himself at a Jones fundraiser in Daphne, Ala. this year.

“There were a lot of lawyers that came from Mobile this year ... and there was a lot of discussion about how they had voted Republican before but they weren't going to support Roy Moore,” Anders said.

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