Sessions held a safe US Senate seat in Alabama….
He was one of the first to back the Donald Trump for President campaign ….
Bit?
Because he did the ‘right thing’ in NOT. carrying the water for Trump as Attorney General when the investigations started?
Trump turned on him….
Now?
Jeff Seasons wants his job back..z
What will his party leader do about this?…
Jeff Sessions should enter the Senate race in Alabama as the frontrunner: He’s a national figure with endorsements from multiple senators, a hefty war chest and the benefit of having won four previous elections to the seat.
But there’s one major obstacle: President Donald Trump.
Sessions’ relationship with Trump deteriorated during his tenure as attorney general after Sessions recused himself from the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, and the president has continued to publicly criticize his former ally in the year since he departed the administration.
Now, Sessions — who announced his candidacy Thursday night in a news release posted on his website — faces the challenging task of winning back the president’s support or becoming one of the only Republicans in the past three years to win a GOP primary without Trump’s backing. If successful, he would face Sen. Doug Jones, the Democratic incumbent, who is widely viewed as the most vulnerable senator on the ballot next year.
A handful of Sessions former colleagues are ready to endorse his bid, a show of strength in a crowded Republican primary field. Sen. Richard Shelby, Alabama’s senior senator, has said he would back Sessions. Sens. Roy Blunt of Missouri and John Barrasso of Wyoming, both members of GOP leadership, also told POLITICO on Thursday they would back their former colleague. Other endorsements are expected, as well.
But most of Sessions’ former colleagues are remaining on the sidelines for the crowded primary, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee will remain neutral.
“I guess I’d rather go into a Republican primary with the president’s support than without it,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota. “But Jeff Sessions is iconic, and obviously, he’ll be a player right out of the chute.”
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His opening statement on his website makes him look like such a glutton for punishment.
It’s basically “Donald Trump could shoot me on Fifth Avenue and I will still never say anything bad about him.”
He’s going to have a hard time winning the primary. His opponents are simply going to bash him with what Trump said about him.
I understand that Shelby begged him to try and come back….
I don’t see anyone dropping out for him as long as Trump still hates him, which is definitely the case.
So, this more crowded field means it’s going to go to a runoff and Roy Moore will be in it. Now, Moore likely won’t win a runoff against anyone but what if it’s Moore vs. Sessions and Trump endorses Moore? Doug Jones becomes the luckiest man alive.
If Sessions were smart, he would use the occasion of such a crowded field to be a little more critical of Trump and let the rest split his vote, but he’s probably already worried about a runoff against one opponent. He might not even get that far.
A GOP runoff seems likely – and Sessions will likely be in it. If Trump endorses someone, then that will be the second candidate in the runoff.
Gee I have more confidence in Alabama Republicans than CG!
I think Moore’s chances of winning the Republican primary are remote,less than 5% ,against Sessions or anybody else.
Not a chance Sessions runs a campaign critical of Trump as CG suggests.
Did you see his announcement video? He was begging Trump not to mock hum again. Proclaiming how subservient he had been in spite of Trump constantly bashing him.
It was pathetic. But that’s the state of the whole Republican party now. Pathetic.
Yeah Jefferson Davis S. is in effect walking around with a sign on his back,
“Kick Me In the Ass Big Don ,I can take it!”
Pathetic is the word.
His name is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. How do you not win in Alabama with that name?
You are correct.
Confederate Derangement Syndrome is my only excuse!
Did he name himself at birth?
Does he insist on people calling him that?
We tend to get named by our parents without much choice in the matter.
Focusing on his middle name as a point of criticism of him is really not any different than those who fixated on Obama’s middle name,
Oh I think Sessions would proudly call himself by his full name and has no problem with it whatsoever.
Sessions like all that old south stuff.
Well, it’s his name and apparently that of his daddy and granddaddy too, so I know the Gentile people are proud of things like that.
He doesn’t go by it professionally though and he’s not a Confederate, whatever else may be said about him.
Take it up with Southern Republicans who watched Trump mock Sessions southern accent and are afraid to say a damned thing.
If they were here I would.
Instead, what I have to work with are liberals who make fun of southerners for their names.
Yeah it’s clear from your misunderstanding of racial politics in the South that you haven’t spoke with many, or any, Southern Republicans.
I’m not making fun of him.
That’s the guys name.
As usual you’re trying desperately to stir up a no issue.
Hell I’ve got lots of friends with old sout names
I even have a distant cousin in Marion SC named Beauregard and it’s his first name, calls himself Beau(and spells it that way.
Once again another issue you couldn’t care less about.
Why does his name bother yoi Scott? Did he choose it?
You wouldn’t like it if someone associated you with the horrors of past Germans because of your name.
And oh yes,I’m opposed to the election of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to the US Senate.
so jack, my point is why bring up his name at all then in such a way?
I voted against Barack Obama three times without ever feeling the need to say that I was opposing Barack Hussein Obama.
Oh everybody here and elsewhere jokes sometimes about people’s names.
Good God is that all you’ve got today.
Things must really be boring at work!
jokes are fine in many areas but when it’s about someone’s name in a malicious way, it’s something that people usually outgrow as children.
Believe me, you guys didn’t just laugh it off when people attacked Obama for the name he was given at birth. I didn’t either.
When did I say boo about Sessions name?
“misunderstanding of southern politics” which I assumed was directed at me. (Was it not?)
I didn’t know how else to take that but you disagreeing with me over the name thing.
You said you’d complain to Southern Republicans for failing to defend Sessions when Trump made fun of his southern accent–except you don’t speak to any.
I said it’s evident you don’t have much contact with Southern Republicans by your misunderstanding of party politics in the region (though I think some of that is definitely willful ignorance)
I don’t speak to them *here* because there aren’t any to speak to. This blog prison cell is pretty limited.
I sometimes speak to them on HHR.
And I don’t really think southern conservative Republicans are very different than conservative Republicans I know and have associated with from my area.
Haha,
If you came to a Republican meeting in S.C. and expressed some of the views you expressed here?
You would be loudly cursed ,,denounced as aRINO and a”librul” and maybe even threatened with physical violence.
I guess I didn’t see the criticism in Jack’s comments, but perhaps you have a point. With that said, we rarely call Romney by his first name Willard.
But in you saying that Jeff Sessions is not a confederate, it should be noted that four attorneys testified that Sessions has used racist language – in addition to other very controversial racial history a long time ago (although not as long ago as the episodes you continuously bring up about one of pdog’s more prominent posters).
We know that you care deeply when others apply double standards.
I could go to a meeting 10 minutes from my home and have the same thing happen.
85 year old move slowly though.
If I went on an anti-Trump rant, I actually think southerners would be more polite and hospitable. I’d get a lot of “Bless your Heart.”
It would be the same time period. Sessions was denied a federal judgeship at the same time our friend continued to make headlines and submit Letters to the Editor and whatnot in which the dog whistles were beyond apparent.
My understanding is that the main thing Sessions said was along the lines that the Klan had some decent people but they went too far and have a bad reputation because of that.
There is much to dislike about Sessions Senate record, but those who have served with him, including African-Americans have said they have not found anything remotely racist in dealing with him.
Actually that “bless your heart “hokum is something mostly seen on television.
Apparently your knowledge of the south is media based.
Indeed I have lived in the south all my life and have rarely heard those words uttered.
Yeah those ol boys would just be sweet as pie to you.
I genuinely believe southerners would be friendlier and more polite, even when having differences (not to say Midwesterners are not known for this t00).
I know you pride yourself on being something of a hardass, but this seems to have been backed up by many sociological studies and I’ve seen it demonstrated on shows like “What Would You Do?”
The real pricks are in places like NYC, Philly, and Boston.
You go to a Southern Republican meeting and say the things you say here ?
You’ll see how “friendly and polite” they are!
Apparently you have “bought in” to all the southern stereotypes you’ve seen in tv.
That’s nice.
I’m talking about people in general, not just a Republican meeting.
As I said., the reaction at a Republican meeting would probably be the same anywhere. I do not think actual violence would be likely though (maybe if someone was drunk, which rarely happens at GOP gatherings).
I also believe that there would at least be some people sitting there silently whispering to themselves that I was completely right about Trump.
An interesting study would be in which area of the country is there most likely to be a riot over the Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich…
I’ll give it another week or so before I attempt to go the one by me.
Where would I most face the risk of violence? I think I know the answer.
Going to my Township Republican meeting and saying that Donald Trump is a psychopath who should be removed from office.
or
Going to my Township Democrat meeting and saying that some public school teachers are not doing a good enjoy job and should be held accountable.
*good enough job*
See, I make dumb mistakes like that as a product of public schools K- College.
In my travels to NYC I’ve found native New Yorkers to be very friendly.
My company has a second office in Philly and the people there definitely have what I would call a harder edge to them. Hard to put my finger on it but if I were around a native of Philly and one from NYC I would expect the latter to be more friendly and polite.
Bostoners seem to be somewhere between the two in my experience
Philly would definitely be the worst and they are proud of it.