Jeff Sessions loses comeback bid in Alabama runoff
Source: The Hill
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed in his bid to reclaim his old Senate seat after losing to former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville in the Alabama GOP runoff on Tuesday.
Tuberville was leading Sessions by 63 percent to 37 percent, with 35 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press.
The former football coach will go on to face Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) in November. Jones is considered the most vulnerable Democrat facing reelection in 2020 in a race The Cook Political Report rates as "Leans Republican."
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/507350-jeff-sessions-loses-comeback-bid-in-alabama-runoff
Budi
(15,325 posts)Good luck to you!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)It means Sessions did not get enough votes for a recount call.
It means the Republican establishment here sent a message to Sessions and his supporters.
The message to Tuberville is not that he won the primary, but that he did not lose it by the votes of those who have just told Sessions it's time for him to retire to the veranda and rocking chair, at least till after Nov. decides everyone's fate.
The results also show that writing Doug Jones off would be a mistake.
I'm thrilled that the "World's Smallest Living Confederate Monument" has been dethroned.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Pity it took such complacency that allowed a disaster like Trump, to motivate Americans to stop taking their Democratic Republic for granted.
Never again.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)He was in congress for a long time. His generation did not solve any problems.
Out with the old and in with the new.
still_one
(92,492 posts)Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)n/t
bucolic_frolic
(43,445 posts)yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)catbyte
(34,518 posts)Good one...
ZZenith
(4,133 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)calguy
(5,345 posts)Doug Jones just might have a fighting chance. Although at this pount, in this state, it's probably a long shot.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)But even if he doesn't I think our chances of taking back the Senate are increasing. Doug appears to be our only vulnerable member, whereas there are several Republican in the vulnerable category.
Submariner
(12,513 posts)shoot and kill Trump for ruining first his career, and now his retirement in disgrace as Trump roadkill, and I wouldnt even be shocked if it happened. Go for it Jeff boy.
BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)Storm the Bastille, off with their /his head!
Great wasy to celebrate July 14th!
keithbvadu2
(37,011 posts)And after all the butt kissing of Trump that Sessions did in the campaign.
yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)Let's hope that the blue wave sloshes over into Alabama like the Trump Hurricane Sharpie!
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)It is very similar to the race that put Jones there to begin with. Trump squashes what would be an easy win for a regular republican by supporting a flawed candidate in the primary. I also agree that Jones is still the underdog. Pardon the pun, but it would be like Auburn beating Alabama 2 years in a row. Then again, the score and down and distance are the same.
DeminPennswoods
(15,294 posts)indicted, prosecuted and convicted the klansmen who planned and carried out the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.
In this year of protest over the treatment of AfAms, this case alone should be sufficient motivation for minorities, and everyone else who supports racial equality, to vote in record numbers for Jones.
yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Under The Radar
(3,406 posts)I think that Pence is the ultimate presidential blow jobber, but Jeff Sessions was a very close 2nd.
Perhaps the knife in the back from Trump will prompt Sessions to explain his meetings with the Russians during the campaign.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)Xolodno
(6,410 posts)...Sessions should endorse Jones.
Doug.Goodall
(1,241 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,844 posts)Now stay gone.
Paladin
(28,281 posts)mackdaddy
(1,530 posts)Sociopaths are not loyal to anyone but themselves.