Jonathan Allen and Keri Geiger write for NBC News that Alabama Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore is going after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for trying to interfere in state politics, and the message is resonating with voters:

Roy Moore is on the warpath against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

As Republicans here reckon with allegations of sexual misconduct against Moore, their nominee in next month’s Senate election is trying to turn the race into a referendum on whether McConnell has spent too much time on Alabama politics and too little advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda in Washington.

There are signs that his attacks are resonating with Republicans in some corners of Alabama.

“I’m picking up a strong sense that people are not happy that people from outside the state, particularly the Washington establishment, are trying to come in and influence the election,” Noah Wahl, the GOP chairman in north Alabama’s Limestone County, said when asked about McConnell. “He is kind of the whipping boy.”

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