Alabama GOP
Alabama GOP Chairwoman Terry Lathan threatened those who would no longer support Moore.
Lathan said “it would be a serious error for any current elected GOP official or candidate to publicly endorse another party’s candidate, an independent, a third party or a write in candidate in a general election as well.”
Alabama GOP bylaws allow them “the right to deny ballot access to a candidate for public office.”
Anyone who “either publicly participated in the primary election of another political party or publicly supported a nominee of another political party” could lose out.
Rep. Mo Brooks said “as long as Roy Moore is our nominee, a Republican cannot wage a write-in campaign under Alabama Republican Party rules and be on the ballot as a Republican in the future.”
“This is the political tightrope of the century,” said Alabama GOP strategist David Ferguson. “How do these elected officials answer the allegations against Roy Moore, in a hyper-political environment, without isolating their Republican base and without disregarding the very serious charges that are on the table all seven months before another heated round of statewide primaries?”