Jeff Sessions loses comeback bid in Alabama runoff

[brooklynite]

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]

1. Never say never, Mr Jones!! 👍

Good luck to you!

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. The fact the results are being published now is tellin

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]

17. The good signs are showiing up all around us. 2021 will bring a great shift in American politics

Finally, everyone is paying attention.

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]

21. I suspect it really had to do with Sessions' age.

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]

2. A battle between two racists, and the greater racist won

[Blue Owl]

20. The lessons of Sessions are measured in racial aggressions

n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Is there a Sess of the Tubervilles joke in here somewhere?

[yellowcanine]

9. There is now!

[catbyte]

10. LOL

Good one...

[ZZenith]

15. Bazinga!

[CTyankee]

26. Not Tuberville, but a pretty good SNL take down by Kate McKenna

[calguy]

4. If things get bad enough for trump

Doug Jones just might have a fighting chance. Although at this pount, in this state, it's probably a long shot.

[totodeinhere]

5. I hope that Doug Jones can pull it off.

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]

6. Sessions strikes me as the type of character that could

shoot and kill Trump for ruining first his career, and now his retirement in disgrace as Trump roadkill, and I wouldn’t even be shocked if it happened. Go for it Jeff boy.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Yes, and ASAP!

Storm the Bastille, off with their /his head!

Great wasy to celebrate July 14th!

[keithbvadu2]

7. And after all the butt kissing of Trump that Sessions did in the campaign.

And after all the butt kissing of Trump that Sessions did in the campaign.

[yellowcanine]

11. Jones still has to be the underdog but his chances just improved, imo.

Let's hope that the blue wave sloshes over into Alabama like the Trump Hurricane Sharpie!

[chriscan64]

16. I think you are right.

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]

25. Jones is the US Atty who successfully

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]

12. Secessionist Sessions just got out secessioned!

[Dopers_Greed]

13. Everything that Trump touches dies

[Under The Radar]

18. Proof that Trump absolutely holds no loyalty for anyone

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]

19. Alabama politics seems to be a matter of picking the biggest turd.

[olddad65]

29. Trump will go with which ever one floats the longest.

[Xolodno]

22. In the ultimate spite....

...Sessions should endorse Jones.

[Doug.Goodall]

23. Sessions just got recused

[ResistantAmerican17]

24. Bye bye Beauregard......

Now stay gone.

[Paladin]

27. Good riddance to a filthy little racist. (nt)

[mackdaddy]

28. Early to endorse Donald Trump, hunh. How's that working out for you?

Sociopaths are not loyal to anyone but themselves.