Jeff Sessions Senate bid: Can he overcome President Trump?
On Thursday, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced he will campaign to reclaim a Senate seat in Alabama he held for more than 20 years before joining the Trump administration. Sessions was one of the few establishment Republicans to endorse Trump early in his campaign and was rewarded with the top law enforcement job in the country after Trump became president.
Alabama’s Senate vacancy was filled by Democrat Doug Jones after a special election to replace Sessions in 2017. Jones won an upset victory in the deep-red state over Republican Roy Moore, whose campaign was mired by allegations of sexual abuse and child molestation. Trump is the face of the Republican Party and is enormously popular in Alabama, but so is Sessions, at least historically. Some political experts believe a public rebuke from the president would be a death blow to Sessions’s campaign. However, Trump’s chosen candidate in the 2017 primary lost to Moore, who went on to lose in the general election despite the president’s backing.
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