Archived Jeff Sessions & Tuberville head to runoff in Alabama Senate race (apnews.com)
submitted ago by rickki6
Posted by: rickki6
Posting time: 10 months ago on
Last edit time: never edited.
Archived on: 6/3/2020 10:00:00 AM
Views: 102
SCP: 26
26 upvotes, 0 downvotes (100% upvoted it)
Archived Jeff Sessions & Tuberville head to runoff in Alabama Senate race (apnews.com)
submitted ago by rickki6
Sort: Top
[–] Lurker17 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
A good word from Trump would put Sessions over the top. I still think Trump was acting angry with Sessions, optics for DS consumption. Jeff helped to set up the framework exposing everything non-RussiaGate that we know today. It was obvious the DS could not have Sessions investigating RussiaGate so their operatives would immediately attempt to take control of the investigation. When they came knocking, Jeff opened the door for them. From that point on, the DS was in a trap of Qs design. I think Jeff was DS bait, he knew what was happening, did what had to be done and someday we will know the rest of that story.
Edit-
About the same time I posted this, Trump posted this
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1235181043881299969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1235181043881299969&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fqmap.pub%2F
I don't understand the value of continuing the ruse, if it is a ruse. I would think Trump would want Jeff as Senator from AL, Trump knows Jeff is true blue MAGA and was a good senator (whether or not he was a good AG). Tuberville is new and unknown.
[–] WillGreeley ago
Think about it. He handed Sessions the AG job and Sessions like Rand Paul have chosen a life of strict principals so strict they can't see the forest for the trees. Sessions was tricked into having to choose between his strict principals and what sb defending America from the goons DS! Rand's strict principals puts him in exactly the same place.
[–] WillGreeley ago
Sounds like Trump is saying - Sessions should not have 'recused' himself no matter the mind games the DS pulled on him!
[–] MAIDENanon 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Remember....we are watching a movie. Sessions and Trump are cool with each other..
[–] rickki6 [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Agree
[–] Titaniumman 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
All of my friends of mine in Alabama where i once lived for many years are supporting
Tuberville because he IS NOT a politician the same reasoning they used when they supported president Trumps presidential bid
[–] Krussianit 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
he is also for open borders
[–] Patriotknife100 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Two tweet thread that explains all. Imho, Sessions will prevail. We'll see.
[–] late2thegame ago
I believe the Trump/Sessions tiff to be fake. Actors acting. I suspect/hope it's because there is a much larger role for Sessions, where he needs to be perceived as "enemy" of Trump, so the democrats will insist he take on the role, believing him to be "fair. Which I believe Sessios really is fair and honest, but anyone "loved" by Trump is tainted to the democrats.
[–] late2thegame ago
Sessions has my vote. Tuberville is known for being a football coach. Wikipedia mentioned this about Tuberville. We don't need any more people already caught up in criminal activity.
[–] DammitMan ago
Tuberville is well known and very respected here in AL. Sessions did a great job as AL Senator but there are two issues where his stance is not appreciated. He favors a gun registry, number one. Most Alabamians do not. He is also against the legalization of marijuana. Most of our citizens favor legalizing pot. Tuberville May very well win on those two issues.
[–] rickki6 [S] ago
Jeff Sessions, who was forced out as President Donald Trump’s first attorney general, fell short of winning the GOP nomination for the Senate seat he held for 20 years and now advances to a runoff with former college football coach Tommy Tuberville.
Leading the crowded Republican primary, Sessions and Tuberville ended Tuesday in a tight race. The winner of their March 31 runoff will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, as Republicans try to reclaim the Senate seat in the once reliably red state.
Sessions gave up the Senate seat when he was appointed Trump’s attorney general, a position he was forced to resign after his recusal from the Russia inquiry sparked blistering criticism from the president.
Sessions, 73, has maintained loyalty to Trump, noting that he was the first U.S senator to endorse Trump in 2016 and arguing he would be most effective in advancing Trump’s agenda.
“Anyone can say they are for the Trump agenda, but talk is cheap, but I have fought on the great issues of our day and won,” Sessions told a cheering crowd in his hometown in Mobile.
“We have this opportunity to turn the Trump agenda into reality, and I am the man for that job,” Sessions said.
Tuberville, boosted by name recognition from years as a football coach at Auburn University, positioned himself as a political outsider and tried to capitalize on Trump’s past criticisms of Sessions.
“Only one candidate in this race will support Donald Trump down the line. Doug won’t. Jeff didn’t. But Tommy will,” Tuberville, 65, told a cheering crowd at his election night watch party.
U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, Rep. Arnold Mooney, businessman Stanley Adair and community activist Ruth Page Nelson also ran in the primary.
Byrne, a three-term congressman from south Alabama, gave up a secure House seat to run for the Senate but ended up in third place.
The winner will likely be a strong challenger to Jones, who defeated a scandal-plagued Moore in December 2017 to become Alabama’s first Democratic senator in a quarter-century. Jones is the only Democrat in a statewide office in the GOP-controlled state.
Moore ran a subdued race in his latest Senate bid, coming in fourth.
The primary had been a slug fest and Sessions and Tuberville showed no signs of letting up as the race headed to political overtime.
Tuberville said he would finish the job that Trump began when he looked at Jeff Sessions across the table and said, ”Ýou’re fired.”
Sessions referred to Tuberville, who until last year was registered to vote in Florida, as a “tourist from Florida.” The former senator asked where Tuberville was when he was supporting and helping Trump get elected.
“Where was he when Donald Trump needed him?” Sessions said.
Voters expressed a mix of admiration for Sessions and a desire to move on.
“He is one of the most honest people I’ve ever known ... and loves the state of Alabama,” said Beth Yoder, a 76-year-old retired nurse.
In the Birmingham suburb of Homewood, home builder and Trump supporter Chris Youngs said he voted for Tuberville for U.S. Senate because he didn’t like the way Sessions stepped aside as attorney general from the investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
“Jeff Sessions had his shot. You know, I frankly feel he embarrassed the state when he was attorney general and I didn’t want to see him in office again,” said Youngs, 55.
[–] WillGreeley ago
No one wants Sessions (or Rand Paul) to step on their 'principles' to support trump, so unless Sessions and Paul can vote for Trumps plans to save America even in a tough spot, than move over!