Two Roy Moore supporters called a Democratic congresswoman “every racial slur you can think of” while posing as reporters for the Associated Press.
According to Wisconsin Rep. Gwen Moore‘s communications director, Eric Harris, two men with “very strong Southern accents,” called in claiming to be from the AP shortly after Rep. Moore had called on the Senate to prepare for “the possible election” of accused child molester Roy Moore.
Rep. Moore had called for the Senate Sergeant at Arms to take steps to protect the Senate pages, interns who are usually high school juniors and seniors.
“They were very clear on that they were offended by the congresswoman’s efforts to protect children,” Harris said of the Roy Moore supporters.
However, Harris quickly realized that the two men were not from the AP and called them out on their deception, at which point they became angry and started to spew racial slurs.
According to Harris, they called Rep. Moore “the n-word, a monkey, an animal who belongs in a cage.”
“Just really horrible, vitriolic stuff,” he said.
Roy Moore lost his race for the Senate seat from Alabama in a historic, close election against Democratic candidate Doug Jones on Tuesday night.