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WASHINGTON President Trump broke with leading Republicans on Tuesday and voiced support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama who has been
accused of sexual misconduct with teenagers and has seen his campaign's prospects imperiled.
For the president, defending Mr. Moore is a politically fraught echo of his own campaign, in which multiple women
accused Mr. Trump of sexual improprieties that he vigorously denied. Like Mr. Moore, the president insisted his accusers were liars and dismissed calls by members of his own party to abandon his campaign. His support of Mr. Moore has renewed attention on those past allegations.
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Mr. Trump's
willingness to accept Mr. Moore's denials underscored the growing Republican divide in Washington, where party officials have worried that their connections to Mr. Moore a Breitbart News-backed candidate would taint establishment candidates across the country. Senate Republicans said on Tuesday that they were bewildered by Mr. Trump's weighing in on the Alabama race
[SUB][/SUB]after he had remained quiet, and they said that the president had put them in a difficult position.