Rich Lowry: ‘If Roy Moore Killed Someone with an Ax, Steve Bannon Would Say It’s Mitch McConnell’s Fault’

ANDREA MITCHELL: Rich Lowry, Peggy Noonan wrote this weekend that, "The women of Alabama are now uh being challenged." He said, "Roy Moore targeted the deplorables." That was an intentional word. "They were people with no sway, no pull. Some of them in the presidential election voted for Donald Trump. There are better conservatives in Alabama than Roy Moore. Republican women rise up and raise hell. That would be real loyally-loyalty and to those who really are your own." What is the impact--

RICH LOWRY: Well--

ANDREA MITCHELL: --on Republicans in Alabama?

RICH LOWRY: --I really think it should have been incumbent on the Republican Party to give their voters a better choice. And that would have meant fundamentally President Trump weighing in very heavily against Roy Moore and pressuring state party officials saying, "Look, you don't have a future in this party unless you find some way to leverage this guy out of this race. It didn't happen. Now Roy Moore is running the only race he can which is saying, "Look, all these attacks on me are attacks on you, my supporters," and envying against Mitch McConnell. And it really goes to the cynical demagoguery of the likes of Steve Bannon who if Roy Moore killed someone with an ax Steve Bannon would say, "It's Mitch McConnell's fault."