Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore Roy Stewart MooreVulnerable Senate Democrat urges unity: 'Not about what side of the aisle we're on' Sessions hits back at Trump days ahead of Alabama Senate runoff Judge allows Roy Moore lawsuit over Sacha Baron Cohen prank to proceed MORE (R) is “seriously considering” challenging Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) again in 2020, his wife, Kayla Moore, said in a fundraising email Tuesday.

“Judge Moore is not only fighting back in court against those who conspired to destroy his political career, but is also seriously considering another run for the United States Senate!” the email states.

In the email, Kayla Moore cites an April poll finding Roy Moore at the top of the field of possible Republican candidates for the seat with 27 percent.

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Jones defeated Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, in a December 2017 special election to fill the seat vacated when Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status MORE became attorney general. Moore's campaign was dogged by allegations that he romantically pursued teenage girls when he was in his 30s, while multiple women accused him of sexual assault.

Moore has denied the charges and repeatedly blamed The Washington Post, which broke the initial story about his behavior.

Kayla Moore claims the April poll “revealed that most Alabamian voters were NOT fooled by Washington Post's fictitious story about Judge Roy Moore.”

Senate GOP leaders are reportedly firmly opposed to Moore mounting another run. They had backed then-incumbent Sen. Luther Strange Luther Johnson StrangeSessions hits back at Trump days ahead of Alabama Senate runoff The biggest political upsets of the decade State 'certificate of need' laws need to go MORE in the GOP primary in 2017, but he was defeated by Moore.

“There’s no way on earth Roy Moore can be handed the nomination so he can turn around and give the seat back to Democrats,” a Republican strategist said in April. “This is a seat that belongs in the hands of Alabama Republicans, not Democrats.”

Jones’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

A number of GOP senators called on Moore to leave the race in 2017, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFEC flags McConnell campaign over suspected accounting errors Poll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' MORE (R-Ky.) said at the time that he believed the women making charges against Moore.

Roy Moore is currently suing comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as well as Showtime and CBS over a segment in Cohen’s 2018 series “Who Is America” in which Cohen made it appear that Moore set off a “pedophile detector.” On Monday a federal judge granted a request from Cohen to transfer the case to federal court in New York.