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Daily Kos reader, Republicans thought they were riding high last week after Mitch McConnell forced a Frankenstein's monster of corporate tax cuts and giveaways to the super rich through the U.S. Senate last week on a party line vote and called it "tax reform." But Republicans may have celebrated too soon. News that the Republican tax scam will [end cancer treatment for Medicare patients]( has led [outraged constituents]( to take over Senate offices, and polls show the Republican bill to be [deeply unpopular](. It's against this backdrop that Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee are finally endorsing child molester Roy Moore to save a Republican-held Senate seat in Alabama. [Alabama is a deep red state and this race should never have been competitive, but polls show a tight race. Can you chip in to help Get Out The Vote for Daily Kos-endorsed Democrat Doug Jones?]( If you haven't been following the race lately, here's what you need to know: - Polls are all over the place, with Jones and Moore each leading in two of the last four public polls - Jones is closing his campaign by going on [full offense](, delivering a powerful speech in which he said Moore should be in jail given his history of preying on teenage girls and scorning Moore's habit of playing cowboy at campaign events - Jones' strong campaign made for a race tougher-than-expected challenge to Moore in a very, very red state - Democrat Doug Jones—a former U.S. Attorney who successfully prosecuted KKK terrorists who killed four little girls by dynamiting a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963—has been running a powerful grassroots campaign - Moore's campaign was rocked by news that Moore had sexually pursued several teenage girls, including one as young as 14, while he was in his 30s - In yet another disgusting (yet totally in-character) moment, Moore said an event this week that Democratic donor George Soros is [going to hell because he's a Jew]( - Moore dug in and denied everything and Republican leaders seemingly abandoned him, but they now appear to be backtracking in their condemnation of him in order to save the Senate seat for their party [So please, if you haven't already, chip in to Daily Kos-endorsed Democrat Doug Jones now.]( Thank you, Michael Langenmayr, Daily Kos Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Sent via [ActionNetwork.org](. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please [click here](.