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Sen.-elect Doug Jones speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. Weary national Republicans breathed a collective sigh of
relief on Wednesday, a day after voters knocked out their own party’s scandal-plagued candidate in deep-red Alabama.
(AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Republicans Breathe Sigh of Relief amid Alabama Fallout

By STEVE PEOPLES deep-red Alabama. Yet not his preferred outcome. the way it turned out.” high-profile Republican
ALAN FRAM all is not well in a party He said he “would have Indeed, it was easy to find senator dogged by sexual
WASHINGTON (AP) confronted with new liked to have had the seat” establishment-minded misconduct accusations
— Weary national rounds of infighting and a and an important Senate Republicans — in and — and an all-but-certain
Republicans breathed suddenly shrinking Senate vote as GOP lawmakers out of Washington — ethics investigation —
a collective sigh of relief majority heading into next scratch for legislative who cheered Moore’s unnerved a GOP that’s
on Wednesday, a day year’s midterm elections. victories. But he also loss as the impact of the fearful of an albatross on its
after voters knocked out A semi-humbled President acknowledged, “A lot of Alabama stunner echoed candidates in next year’s
their own party’s scandal- Donald Trump conceded Republicans feel differently. throughout the political campaigns.
plagued candidate in that Roy Moore’s loss was They feel very happy about world. The prospect of a Continued on Page 3
Justice Official Defends Mueller, Sees No Cause for Firing

By SADIE GURMAN day and said he had seen team and an FBI lawyer of the officials said in an fire Mueller, whom he ap-
ERIC TUCKER no cause to fire him and who was on the same de- election night text that the pointed and whose work
Associated Press had not been pressured to tail. Those messages, which prospect of a Trump victory he oversees, he replied
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dep- do so. occurred before Mueller was “terrifying.” that he had not. Rosenstein
uty Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appeared be- was appointed in May to in- The disclosures of the text also defended the creden-
Rosenstein, facing con- fore the House Judiciary vestigate potential coordi- messages added to con- tials of Mueller, a former FBI
gressional questions about Committee one day after nation between Russia and cerns among members of director, and said he was
anti-Donald Trump text the Justice Department the Trump campaign, show Congress that Mueller’s an appropriate choice
messages exchanged be- provided congressional the officials using words team is tainted by political to run the Justice Depart-
tween two FBI officials as- committees with hundreds like “idiot” and “loathsome bias. ment’s Russia investigation
signed to the Russia probe, of text messages between human” to characterize But when Rosenstein was after the firing of FBI Direc-
defended special counsel an FBI counterintelligence Trump as he was running asked by lawmakers if he tor James Comey.
Robert Mueller on Wednes- agent assigned to Mueller’s for president in 2016. One had seen good cause to Continued on Page 3