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Article snippet: Updated on Nov. 21. That a Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama would cruise to victory seemed almost a foregone conclusion. Now, after a series of women have come forward to accuse that candidate, Roy S. Moore, of sexual misconduct, very little is certain in a race that could have major implications for the party’s ability to govern in Washington. President Trump has defended Mr. Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, but Senate Republicans have distanced themselves from Mr. Moore and are openly discussing expelling him from the chamber if he wins. Democrats, for their part, are contemplating the near-impossible: flipping a seat in a deeply red state that last elected a Democratic senator in 1990. As voters prepare for the Dec. 12 special election, here is a breakdown of The Times’s coverage on the race since the accusations emerged. On Nov. 9, The Washington Post reported that four women said Mr. Moore had pursued them sexually or romantically when they were 18 or younger and he was in his 30s. One of them said that he touched her sexually when she was 14, below the state’s age of consent. Over the next several days, a woman accused Mr. Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was 16 (read her statement here), and four more women accused him of sexual misconduct or unwanted overtures. Mr. Moore, 70, remains defiant, trying to discredit the accusers while denying the most serious charges against him and insisting that they are part of... Link to the full article to read more