Thank you for Reading! On your next view you will be asked to log in or create an account to continue reading. The U.S. House District 1 candidate spoke to The Mercury on Wednesday about his campaign against U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, a Republican from Great Bend.
Roby, now in her fourth term in Congress, had faced major backlash from conservative voters after saying in 2016 she wouldn't vote for Trump when the then-Republican presidential nominee was heard bragging about groping and kissing women without consent in a leaked "Access Hollywood" tape. Her disavowal of Trump has since continued to dog her, forcing her into a runoff on Tuesday against former Rep. Bobby Bright, the Democrat-turned-Republican whom Roby unseated in 2010, after she failed to win a majority of the June primary vote in Alabama's heavily agrarian 2nd District.