Rip Van Sessions needs to retire!
- President Donald Trump endorsed Tommy Tuberville in the Alabama Republican Senate runoff over Jeff Sessions.
- Trump has privately and publicly thrashed his former attorney general, who is trying to reclaim a seat he gave up to join the Trump administration.
- Tuberville and Sessions are will face off in a March 31 runoff.
President Donald Trump pushed forward with his campaign to throttle his former attorney general’s ambitions on Tuesday night.
The president endorsed Tommy Tuberville over Jeff Sessions in Alabama’s Republican Senate primary runoff. Tuberville, a former college football coach, aims to deny Sessions’ bid to win back a Senate seat he left to become Trump’s top law enforcement official in 2017.
Sessions recused himself from the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president never forgave him as special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe hovered over his administration for nearly two years.
In a pair of tweets Tuesday, Trump called the former Auburn University football coach a “REAL LEADER” who “will be a great Senator for the people of Alabama.”
“Coach Tommy Tuberville, a winner, has my Complete and Total Endorsement. I love Alabama!”
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Sessions brushed off Trump’s endorsement. In a tweeted statement early Wednesday, he said Trump “can endorse anyone he chooses” but “I intend to take my case directly to the people of Alabama.” He added that he believes in the “principles” Trump had advocated, has “always fought for them” and will “continue to do so.
In the state’s Republican primary a week ago, Tuberville garnered about 33% of the vote, compared with 31% for Sessions. It sent the two candidates to a runoff on March 31 to decide who will face Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in November. He won a 2017 special election to replace Sessions.
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