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Couldn't win. it's the person you replaced in the u.s. senate, of course, david bitter. >> right. >> if you could have a few minutes with roy moore, how would you share the david bitter story with him? >> well, if i had a few minutes with mr. moore, i would tell him to tell the truth. just look the american people and the people of alabama in the eye, and tell the truth, and if it's -- if it's the truth, then -- then be prepared to be accountable for it. and i understand his position is that's what he's doing. the problem is that for him, his accusers disagree. and i've said it day one, i'll s...

David bitter very narrowly beat david duke to come in second in that primary. that got him into the run aif. that's how david vitter got to congress. the serving governor of louisiana mike foster was revealed by grand jury to buy david duke's racist mailing list of louisiana mote e voters for his lae la gubernatorial run. thavgs a big scandal in 1989. that was the same year as he was describing himself to roll call as somebody who agreed with david duke on all the issues but who could do a bet erp job getting elected than david duke himself could. it's not like steve skalise dnt know who david...

1993. he got 41% of the vote in the u.s. senate race. in 1991, he ran for governor of louisiana and won. david duke doing so well, didn't just get a ton of louisiana attention, it got all sorts of national republican figures involved in louisiana politics. who had nothing to do with the state. got involved by endorsing david duke's opponents so david duke wouldn't be seen as the face of the republican party in louisiana. david duke was a very big deal at this time. he was a very famous guy and a very big deal in republican politics in that state and, indeed, around the country because of it. d...

But senator david bitter, my home state of louisiana wants to eliminate something else. any chance of ex-felons, convicted of certain violent crimes from ever receiving food assistance, ever. for life. so the idea here is to cut off food benefits for ex-felons who have served their time in prison forever. so as they struggle to rebuild their lives, well, then they won't have access to food benefits. frankly, it sounds like a great recipe for recidivism. for encouraging these men and women to do something that will put them right back in prison. reaction to the amendment, timothy sneed willing ...