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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 2, 2020, 01:24 AM Mar 2020

Sessions seeks Senate return after firing as Trump's first attorney general

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the first senator to endorse Donald Trump in 2016, heads into Tuesday’s Republican primary for his old Alabama Senate seat without the approval of the president.

Trump hasn’t given an endorsement in the race, but he’s been a constant presence as the candidates claw at each other over who is the most loyal to the president.

Though Sessions, 73, held the seat for two decades before resigning to join the Trump administration, he is far from running away with the nomination.

Sessions’s tenure at the Justice Department was dogged by attacks from Trump, stemming from the attorney general’s recusal from overseeing the Russia investigation. His own stardom has faded in a state where Trump is wildly popular, according to tea party activist Pete Riehm, who considers Sessions a friend.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/sessions-in-tight-race-for-gop-nom-after-trump-fired-him/ar-BB10B9Er?ocid=msedgntp

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Sessions seeks Senate return after firing as Trump's first attorney general (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP
Those rednecks will back that piece of shit. dem4decades Mar 2020 #1
Run as a third party candidate. world wide wally Mar 2020 #2
This is a shame. There are good people in Alabama, and they deserve better than GOP government. Midnight Writer Mar 2020 #3
politicians never want to retire Demovictory9 Mar 2020 #4
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