How Steve Bannon Rescued Roy Moore’s Campaign Against All Odds

  • Alabama Senate candidate calls Bannon ‘the master strategist’
  • Polls show most Republicans now don’t believe Moore’s accusers
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Josh Green takes a look at how Steve Bannon rescued Roy Moore’s Senate campaign. (Source: Bloomberg)
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On the night of Nov. 14, Roy Moore’s campaign for an Alabama Senate seat looked all but finished.

After five women came forward with accounts of Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct with them as teenagers, including one who was 14 years old, the GOP candidate was abandoned by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and many Republicans in Congress, and the Republican National Committee cut off his funding.