On the 9th installment of the “Grand Old Podcast,” hosted by Alabama Republican Party Chairman Scott Stadthagen, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) said America is in a spiritual battle and he believes he is being positioned in the U.S. Senate to fight the spread of Sharia law.
“There is a spiritual battle for the future of our nation,” Moore said. “We’re seeing Sharia law come in and violate our independence and our very constitution.”
The Republican nominee for U.S. Senate sat down with Stadthagen in Dallas, Texas, during the Republican midterm convention last month, one day after President Donald Trump addressed the crowd.
“I think for us in the GOP, the key is getting our vote out, and we think President Trump delivered last night,” Moore said. “There’s a lot of energy and we just need to carry that out to the state.”
Moore won the Republican nomination in a June runoff with 55.8% of the vote. He faces Democrat Everett Wess in November for the seat U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is giving up to run for governor.
Moore said the party first asked him to run for the Legislature in 2006, when his children were young and he was running his waste company, and he had no desire to do it.
“In ’08, Barack Obama said we’re no longer a Christian nation,” Moore said. “And I told Heather that day, if they ever ask us again, we need to engage in the fight.”
“As Christians, my friend, we have to be in this process,” he said. “If we don’t, we’re going to lose our voice.”
Moore won an Alabama House seat in 2010. In 2014, he was indicted during the investigation of then-House Speaker Mike Hubbard, and a Lee County jury acquitted him on all counts.
“The top two conservatives in Alabama both got indicted in 2014, and I was one of those guys,” Moore said. “And it was through that process that I really realized that there is a God, and I’m not Him, and He has a plan for your life.”
Moore, who in 2015 became the first elected official in the country to endorse Trump, said every step since has come the same way.
“So for us, it was staying in the fight in ’14, endorsing Trump in ’15, and being called to run to Congress and get elected in 2020, and now this Senate seat, same thing,” he said.
Moore said he and his wife, Heather, did not want the Senate race after he had just won the 1st Congressional District.
“We’re like, Lord, please don’t make us do this,” Moore said. “I told everybody on my team, I would rather run for the U.S. Senate if the Lord has called me to do that and lose than live the rest of my life knowing I’ve been disobedient.”
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Asked what he wants to accomplish as a senator, Moore named the $40 trillion national debt, federal spending and the Washington bureaucracy before turning to Sharia law.
“For years I felt like the liberals would protect us from Islam, but somehow another now they’re all on the same team, and so that battle line’s not Republican and Democrat anymore. It’s not left versus right,” Moore said. “It’s a dangerous field to be in, but I think that’s where we’re going to be called to fight.”
“When you get a young lady gets 35 lashes for wearing fingernail polish in public, those are the kind of things that I don’t think the left and the young liberals in this country understand,” he said.
Stadthagen asked whether Moore missed any votes in Congress while campaigning statewide.
“I’ve been in D.C. six years. I may have missed two in six years out of thousands of votes,” Moore said. “That’s really what the people elected me to do, was to go represent them.”
Moore said other members running for higher office were absent when House Republicans needed them on a war powers vote.
“President Trump, we were trying to make sure he could do what he needed to do in Iran, and we had guys running for state office around this country that were not there, and those are the kind of things that put us in a crisis at a national level,” he said.
“You are going to be our next United States senator,” Stadthagen told Moore. “I’m the Republican chair. I wholeheartedly believe that.”
Stadthagen closed by challenging Moore to the Trump dance.
“I’ll try my best,” Moore said. “Only Trump can do the Trump dance.”
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