#Jeff Sessions largely running against Trump in bitter Alabama Senate primary
“#Jeff Sessions largely running against Trump in bitter Alabama Senate primary”
July 13, 2020 | 6:44pm | Updated July 13, 2020 | 6:44pm
Former US Attorney General Jeff Sessions
AP Photo/Kim Chandler
Sessions, fired and repeatedly humiliated by Trump, spent the final campaign stretch alleging that Trump-endorsed college football coach Tommy Tuberville may be a secret liberal.
Tuberville’s campaign “is funded and directed by Washington, anti-Trump forces,” Sessions tweeted on Monday. “They are trying to pull a fast one on Alabama Republicans.”
The former Auburn University coach narrowly out-performed Sessions in the first round of Republican primary voting in March. A runoff between the men was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Sessions and his supporters note he was an early Trump backer and say he would continue to push a hard line on issues such as immigration.
Tuberville also says he would be a firm conservative. In a recent video, he vowed to donate his salary to veterans and touted himself as “a conservative Christian outsider” who would support “no amnesty ever.”
“We’ve been indoctrinating our kids into socialism and not educating our kids, especially up north,” Tuberville complained. “We’ve got to get God and the Bible back in our schools.”
Trump slammed Sessions hard in the run-up to voting. “Jeff Sessions is a disaster who has let us all down. We don’t want him back in Washington!” Trump tweeted Saturday.
Trump fired Sessions shortly after the 2018 midterm election. For more than a year, Trump had fumed about Sessions recusing himself from oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, allowing a wide-ranging probe that consumed much of his first term.
Trump reportedly gave Sessions the nickname “Mr. Magoo” after the short and near-sighted, elderly cartoon character known for his willful ignorance.
“Jeff Sessions should be ashamed of himself for allowing this total HOAX to get started,” Trump tweeted after firing him.
Trump’s re-election campaign sent Sessions a cease and desist notice in April protesting Sessions’ “delusional assertion that you are ‘Trump’s #1 Supporter.’”
Sessions has been defiant, however. He said in a May statement that Trump was “damn fortunate” he recused himself because it “protected the rule of law & resulted in your exoneration.”
Trump won Alabama by 28 points over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, but he’s been stung before by the state’s Republican primary voters.
In 2017, Alabama voters rejected Trump’s endorsement of Sen. Luther Strange, the state’s former attorney general, who got the job from scandal-plagued Gov. Robert Bentley, whom his office was investigating.
Even a Trump rally for Strange couldn’t help him defeat the more conservative Roy Moore, who lost the general election to Sen. Doug Jones, a Democrat, following sexual predation allegations.
The winner of Tuesday’s primary will face Jones in November.
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