Washington (CNN) Former Judge Roy Moore announced Thursday he'll run for the US Senate seat in Alabama again following his failed bid in 2017 after three women alleged he sexually abused them when they were teenagers decades ago.

In his announcement, Moore wondered why "there's such a fear" over his candidacy, asking if it's because of his conservative positions and religious views.

"I think there was so much opposition because they don't want the truth in Washington," said Moore of his last race. "I think they want to continue the status quo."

In 2017, Moore won the GOP nomination for a special election despite the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, spending millions of dollars against him and for then-Sen. Luther Strange, who had been appointed to fill former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' seat.

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