A liberal group is telling Republican voters in Alabama to write in their choice in this week's special Senate election, using a new ad to explain how they can avoid voting for party nominee Roy Moore �� even if they don't support Democratic nominee Doug Jones.
The 15-second digital ad, set to run on Facebook, shows how voters can write in their vote in Tuesday's election instead of selecting one of the listed candidates.
The ad even suggests whom they should pick instead ��Nick Saban, the coach of the University of Alabama's highly successful football team.
A spokesman for the group running the ad, the liberal super PAC American Bridge, said it was spending more than $10,000 on the spot, targeting 140,000 "persuadable" Republicans in the state.
"Roy Moore's disgraceful actions make him unfit for public service. Alabama voters have a chance to stand up for moral values on Tuesday, and as coach Saban says, 'Character is what you do when no one else is watching,'" said Bradley Beychok, Bridge's president, in a statement.
Democrats are trying to pull off an upset in the deeply red state, hoping to capitalize on the scandal-plagued Moore's deep unpopularity with much of the electorate.
Moore, however, is widely considered the favorite in the race, despite facing multiple, on-the-record allegations that he sexually assaulted teenage girls while in his 30s. Although pollsters caution that an uncommon pre-Christmas special election in a state that rarely has competitive races makes projecting the vote difficult, many recent surveys have shown Moore in the lead.
