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MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — When the Republican Senate candidate Roy S. Moore held his final rally here late Monday, it was his wife, Kayla Moore, who grabbed the headlines with a proclamation that some of the couple’s friends and closest allies are black or Jewish.

Ms. Moore introduced her husband, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, with an impassioned defense of a man who has been accused of sexual misconduct against teenage girls and holds views that critics have called bigoted, sexist and discriminatory.

“Fake news say he doesn’t like women in leadership positions, yet he supports me as the president of the Foundation for Moral Law, that he started 15 years ago today. So happy birthday, Foundation for Moral Law,” she began.

She continued with a testimonial of Mr. Moore’s affections for African-Americans: “When he first took office as chief justice many years ago, he brought with him three people from Etowah County; two were black, and one of them is here tonight. We have many friends that are black, and we also fellowship with them in church and in our home.”