Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said "the ethics committee will have to consider the matters that have been litigated in the campaign should that particular candidate win." | Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images McConnell on Moore: 'I'm going to let the people of Alabama make the call' 
 
 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday shifted his tone on allowing Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore to serve in the Senate if elected. 
 
 Multiple women have accused Moore, who is facing Democrat Doug Jones in the Dec. 12 special election to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, of making sexual advances on them when they were teenagers. When the allegations first appeared, McConnell said he believed the women and said Moore should drop out of the contest. 
 
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 "I'm going to let the people of Alabama make the call," McConnell said on ABC's "This Week." He said he thought the Senate Ethics Committee would handle the allegations against Moore if he is elected: "The ethics committee will have to consider the matters that have been litigated in the campaign should that particular candidate win." 
 
 Other GOP senators, including National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Cory Gardner, have said Moore should be expelled from the Senate if elected. President Donald Trump has also said the decision should be left to the people of Alabama, and he has cast doubt on Moore's accusers. 
 
 McConnell's comments came the same morning CBS News and YouGov released a poll showing Moore leading Jones, 49 percent to 43 percent. 
 
 The poll found that 71 percent of Alabama Republicans say the allegations against Moore are false. The poll used a sample of 1,067 registered voters in Alabama from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1. The margin of error based upon the entire sample is plus or minus 3.8 percent and for likely voters is plus or minus 4.8 percent. 

 A huge majority of Alabama Republicans do not believe the allegations against Roy Moore, according to a new poll. 
 
 Moore, still campaigning, has been saying the allegations are unfounded, and per a CBS News poll out this morning, a whopping 71 percent of Republicans in the state agree. 
 
 Moore leads Doug Jones by 6 points overall. 
 
 Among all likely voters, 21 percent believe the allegations against Moore are “definitely true,” while 24 percent think they’re “probably true.” 
 
 But among just Republicans, 71 percent do not believe the allegations of sexual misconduct from multiple women. 
 
 And when the people who don’t believe the allegations were asked who they think is behind this, a lot of them point to 1) the media, 2) Democrats, and 3) “people seeking attention or money.” 
 
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– Mitch McConnell is now saying voters in Alabama should decide if they want Republican candidate Roy Moore to be their new senator, Politico reports. Appearing on ABC's This Week, the Republican Senate majority leader said, "I'm going to let the people of Alabama make the call" when they vote in the special election Dec. 12. This is a shift for McConnell, who initially said Moore should drop out of the race after several women accused him of making sexual advances when they were teenagers, one as young as 14. "The ethics committee will have to consider the matters that have been litigated in the campaign should that particular candidate win," McConnell said. The majority leader's comments come two days after the Senate voted to approve a massive tax overhaul and on the same day the results of a CBS News poll were released showing Moore with a six-point lead over Democrat Doug Jones. That same poll shows that 71% of Republicans in Alabama don't believe the accusations against Moore, Mediaite reports. A Washington Post poll released yesterday shows Jones with a three-point lead, with 53% of voters saying Jones has higher moral standards than Moore.