Mediaite Editor: Alabama Race a ‘Different Iteration of the GOP Civil War’

During a broadcast of  S.E. Cupp Unfiltered on Tuesday, Mediate Managing Editor Colby Hall described the Alabama Republican Senate primary race between Judge Roy Moore and establishment-backed candidate Luther Strange as a “different iteration of the GOP Civil War.”

“It’s a different iteration of the GOP Civil War,” Hall said. “It had been the Trump administration versus the Swamp, the GOP establishment.”

Despite receiving an endorsement from President Donald Trump, Luther Strange remains the establishment-backed candidate, while Roy Moore has received backing from figures across the populist nationalist movement, including the likes of Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Ann Coulter.

“Breitbart is still a very powerful website,” Hall continued. “And so it’s not just Bannon — Bannon is now sending Sebastian Gorka and Sarah Palin to campaign on behalf of Roy Moore. Which is, by the way, wildly entertaining.”

Moore currently holds a commanding lead in polls over Strange. In a recent poll conducted by JMC Analytics, Moore has a solid 47 percent lead against Strange’s 39 percent, while 13 percent remain undecided.