Former AG Jeff Sessions announced tonight that he is running for his old Senate seat in Alabama
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 already won four previous elections to the seat.
“I guess I’d rather go into a Republican primary with the president’s support than without it,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer . “But Jeff Sessions is iconic, and obviously he’ll be a player right out of the chute.” Sessions has been talking privately with two Trump political lieutenants, Bill Stepien and Justin Clark. At Sessions’ request, the two took the temperature of the White House to see how the president would respond.
Sen. John Cornyn recalled telling Sessions: “Your life is going to be very difficult unless you work out some sort of reconciliation with the president.” Cornyn added that he hoped the two would reconcile and assumed that Sessions would be the nominee, given his previous popularity in the state. “If Sen. Sessions chooses to get in the race, that obviously changes the dynamics of the race completely,” Merrill said in an interview Thursday. He added that it would be “extraordinarily difficult for him to have a successful campaign at the level he’s accustomed to if the president decides that he does not want Sen. Sessions to return to Washington.”
Senate Majority Whip John Thune said that it was up to “the people of Alabama” to decide who the Republican nominee will be, but that if Sessions “ends up prevailing in that race, we’ll look forward to having him as a colleague.”
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