Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) may want GOP nominee Roy Moore to lose a Senate race in Alabama, but that doesn't mean he wants the Democrat, Doug Jones, to prevail. With Moore's numbers sinking in internal Republican polls, Politico reports, McConnell and his advisers have run through a number of plans to keep the Alabama Senate seat in Republican hands.
McConnell's original favored plan — have Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who held the seat for two decades, enter the race as a write-in candidate — frayed as Sessions indicated that he wasn't interested and National Republican Senatorial Committee polling of the idea apparently pointed to negative outcomes. Another idea, pushing back the Dec. 12 election so Alabama Republicans would have time to remove Moore's name from the ballot, got a thumbs-down from Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R), and was further diminished when the Alabama Republican Party agreed to continue supporting Moore's candidacy Wednesday night. McConnell's latest plan is one of several floated by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt:
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