McConnell: Roy Moore should ‘step aside’ after sexual assault allegations

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called on Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore to drop out of the race after allegations by several women that he molested them or tried to date them when they were teenagers.

“I think he should step aside,” McConnell, R-Ky., said at a tax event Monday that was attended by several reporters in Kentucky.

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