AL-02 GOP nominee Barry Moore: Trump ‘optimistic’ about November — ‘Nobody is going to outwork him’

On Wednesday, former State Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), the Republican nominee for this November’s Second Congressional District election, spent time with President Donald Trump inside the Oval Office, along with a handful of other Republican congressional competitors, which included Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl.

During that visit, Moore said he got the sense Trump was “optimistic” about Republicans’ prospects in the November elections.

Moore offered his takeaway from the visit on Trump’s attitude about the elections during an interview with Mobile radio’s FM Talk 106.5 on Thursday.

“I think he’s optimistic,” Moore said. “I think we’re in good shape. The one thing I took away from it is nobody is going to outwork him. This is the first time — Kevin McCarthy has been there for years, I don’t know how long he’s been in Congress — but, as minority leader, he said this is the first time a president has sat down with a group. He would get on the phone and call for you. He’s worked many districts across the country that are close. We can flip those seats. He’s really working to get a majority in Congress for him — for himself and for the nation. I think he wants to take Nancy Pelosi out as speaker, and he’s doing the work. He doesn’t mind putting in the hours.”

A day earlier, Moore received Trump’s official endorsement, which was notable given Moore was among the first elected officials in the country to endorse Trump’s presidential bid, which came in August 2015 at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, one of Trump’s early campaign stops.

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“I think we got to get back to what made the nation great, and that’s free markets,” Moore had said in an interview shortly after his August 21, 2015 endorsement. “Political correctness is the problem with the country. It’s not going to cure anything until we go back our conservative values and get with the Constitution and do what this country was made to do, and that’s create opportunity for everybody.”

@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly and host of Mobile’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on FM Talk 106.5.