Posted on 03/04/2020 5:03:48 AM PST by robowombat
Sessions to face Tuberville in Alabama GOP Senate runoff BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 03/03/20 11:10 PM EST 154
Sessions to face Tuberville in Alabama GOP Senate runoff
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions advanced to the Republican runoff in his bid to regain his old Senate seat in Alabama.
Sessions will face off against former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville in the March 31 runoff after no Republican candidate earned more than 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday's primary, according to The Associated Press.
Despite Sessions holding the Senate seat for 20 years, the GOP primary race remained close as results came in Tuesday night, with Tuberville and Sessions rotating in and out of first place.
The tight vote count underscores that Sessions could face a tough four-week slog as he tries to lock down the nomination.
Sessions has the backing of fellow Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, but other top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), have stayed out of the primary. Sessions was ousted as attorney general in 2018 after his relationship with President Trump soured because of the former senator's decision to recuse himself from the FBI investigation into Russia’s election meddling and the Trump campaign.
Trump’s relationship with Sessions has loomed over the race, but he’s largely kept his distance publicly during the Republican primary. Sessions and Tuberville, as well as Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), who finished in third place, touted themselves during the primary as the candidate most aligned with Trump.
Tuberville, speaking to supporters on Tuesday night, referred to Sessions as a "cut and run" politician, an apparent reference to his relationship with Trump.
"We’re going to finish what President Trump started when he looked at Jeff Sessions from across the table and said, 'You’re fired,'" Tuberville added, according to multiple reports. Whoever wins the runoff election will face off against Democratic Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who is widely viewed as the most vulnerable Democratic senator.
Jones won his seat in 2017 when he beat GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore, who faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s. Moore also ran again for the party's nomination this year but lost on Tuesday night.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) on Tuesday night referred to both Tuberville and Sessions as "deeply flawed."
"Just like we saw last time, this runoff will extend a bitter, divisive feud while Senator Jones will continue to outraise his Republican opponents and is focused on bringing people together," DSCC spokeswoman Helen Kalla said in a statement. The Alabama Senate race is ranked by The Cook Political Report as "leans Republican."
Retards or Cucks, every single one of them. "Trust Sessions."
Hopefully if Tuberville wins, he won’t have any closet skeletons to exploit in the general election.
Joe Biden just won several overwhelming victories ... and you’re surprised by voters?
Lots of them probably thought Jeff Sessions was running for reelection to Senate, having never left his seat.
Overwhelming? Biden will end up with barely 1/3rd of the actual votes in the DEM primaries for Super Tuesday. It was a combination of having too many DEM candidates and the stop Sanders movement.
It's the state-by-state delegate amounts that matter.
Hopefully if Tuberville wins, he won’t have any closet skeletons to exploit in the general election.
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If he does we’d likely hear about it before the run off.
There are still many willfully blind supporters of him here on FR. They claim he’s great and ignore all the damage he did as AG - as well as his not terribly effective record as Senator.
Sessions must go. No more Keebler Elf.
Alabama, please send this Tuberville man to Washington.
Interesting to see Shelby not supporting the progressive Democrat this time around. Although, I suppose that could change if Tuberville wins the primary.
:: Retards or Cucks, every single one of them. “Trust Sessions.” ::
That term is attributable to “Q” and all such comments are to be kept on the QAnon thread found elsewhere on FR.
Keep the Q-stuff off the main board!
I worry about the damage Sessions can do to Trump in the Senate.
"Talk is cheap and action matters. I will continue to be @realDonaldTrump's No.1 supporter because I understand his platform & message better than anyone. I’ve stood up to the establishment in Washington before, and I’m ready to seize the moment again as a Warrior for Truth."
He should have added that his first vote will be to impeach the President since he wasn't in office at the time.
This is a thread about Sessions, so I’ll say whatever I damned want about him and his dopey retarded cuck supporters.
Sessions should recuse himself from the primary. Corrupt establishment dirt bag.
If he doesn't the media wing of the CommiecRAT party will make some up as usual.
That and making the early Trump admin look like old Puritanical fogies by going after marijuana like it was THE! ONE! SINGLE! PROBLEM! THE! US! FACED! was about all he actually did. And he was pushing for *massive* expansion of pre-conviction civil forfeiture - read: enriching the government at the expense of the possibly innocent accused, with the victims never getting their possessions back even if no charges were ever filed or if they were acquitted - for pretty much any offense he thought he could get away with.
Think about that, Sessions supporters. Sessions wanted the government to be able to take everything you own and auction it off on the mere *accusation* of a Federal crime. This is what you support???
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