Trump: ‘I Said Roy Moore Will Not Be Able to Win’ in Alabama
White House aides were also bracing for the president’s reaction toward Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist who had publicly said Mr. Trump’s base was with Mr. Moore
and suggested the movement would march on without the leader of the party.
White House aides were bracing for fallout from President Trump on Wednesday after the Republican candidate
he vigorously backed over his aides’ objections lost a Deep South Senate seat to a Democrat.
One of the advisers said that Mr. Trump would still nurse a grudge against Mr. McConnell, whose
instincts the president does not trust, for leading him to the original endorsement.
“A win is a win,” Mr. Trump wrote, adding that Republicans would have another chance
at the seat — vacated by Jeff Sessions, now the attorney general — soon enough.
Those advisers said the president was troubled watching a stream of Republicans step away from Mr. Moore over
decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct with teenagers, and he did not want to join the stampede.