Congressman Bradley Byrne said he expects Roy Moore to enter the U.S. Senate race within the next month. For his part, the former Alabama Supreme Court Justice said if he does run, he expects to beat the incumbent, Democratic Senator Doug Jones.

Speaking to The Hill, Byrne, R-Fairhope, said sources close to Moore believe he will launch his campaign soon.

“People who I believe know what they’re talking about say that Judge Moore intends to announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in June. I welcome him to the race,” Byrne said.

Byrne launched his own Senate campaign in February.

Moore says he will win

Despite losing to Jones in a 2017 race marred by allegations of improper sexual contact with teenage girls in the 1970s, Moore remains confident he could win in 2020. In a series of tweets, Moore asked “what is (Byrne) so worried about?”

He followed that up with “he knows that if I run I will beat Doug Jones.”

He knows that if I run I will beat Doug Jones. — Judge Roy Moore (@RealJudgeMoore) May 28, 2019

Byrne disagrees, telling The Hill that Moore’s political baggage “hasn’t gone away.”

“I think people are very concerned that we Republicans lost a U.S. Senate seat because he was our nominee in 2017 and we don’t need to do that again,” Byrne said, adding there were “some serious pieces of litigation” between some of his accusers and Moore.

“I personally don’t want to talk about any of that; I want to talk about how we’re going to beat Doug Jones. But I think it’s inevitable it’s going to come up in the primary campaign, and if he was the nominee, it certainly would come up in the general election.”

Moore did not respond to AL.com’s request for comment on the story.