She was skeptical about the report in The Post. “Why haven’t we heard about all this before?” she said. “Because this clown’s been around a long time.”

Ms. Beacham is anti-abortion, and would prefer to see the Republicans continue to maintain control of the Senate. She is no fan of the Affordable Care Act, which she blames for an increase in her monthly health insurance payment.

She did not feel as if she had much of a choice in the coming election. She said it reminded her of the presidential contest, when she wrote in Condoleezza Rice. “I wanted a woman,” she said. “But I didn’t want Hillary.”

She held out the possibility of voting for Mr. Jones, but only because he wasn’t Roy Moore. But Mr. Moore, she said, would probably win, “because of the way he exploits Christianity” and, she added half-joking, that the allegations were coming from a “Yankee paper.”

“I mean, who’s going to believe that?” she said, chortling.

Also uncertain was Susie Frazier, 56, who was finishing a meal at a fast-food restaurant with her husband, Ed, on Friday morning. They had voted for Mr. Moore in the Republican primary, they said, but not because they had any great love for him: Mr. Frazier said they had largely voted against Mr. Strange because they had received so many of his annoying robocalls.

Ms. Frazier said that she had liked Mr. Moore well enough. She called herself a conservative, but not an extremist. She and her husband had both voted for President Trump, though Mr. Frazier said they were disappointed thus far. It seemed, he said, that Mr. Trump’s swamp-draining skills were not as potent as he had promised.

Ms. Frazier seemed unsure what to think about the allegations, and was not sure whom she would vote for in December. “I’m just trying to see what happens with all of this,” she said, “and if there’s someone better.”