Posted on 01/28/2016 12:05:13 PM PST by Hojczyk
Of all Donald Trump’s curious unblemished records, this one will almost surely end pretty soon: At last one member of Congress will endorse him for president.
As good a bet as any is that this signal move will come from Jeff Sessions, the junior Republican senator from Alabama.
The body of circumstantial evidence pointing his way has been growing steadily. In August, Sessions was the first lawmaker to appear with the billionaire businessman at a campaign rally, where he was photographed sporting a “Make America Great Again†ball cap. Soon afterward the senator, who’s chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, acted as ghostwriter for Trump’s hard-line immigration platform. Then the pair adopted almost identical language for castigating the Iran nuclear deal. Sessions got the only one-on-one meeting when Trump came to Capitol Hill in the fall. This month, Sessions approached conservative opinion leaders to volunteer effusive praise for Trump’s protectionist trade agenda.
Capping it all off, this week the senator gave one of his top aides for the past seven years, Stephen Miller, an indefinite leave of absence to join the Trump campaign as a senior policy and communications adviser.
(Miller was behind a memo Sessions sent to other GOP senators in 2013, which foreshadowed the genesis of Trump’s candidacy by urging the party to embrace an “honest populism†designed “to speak directly to the real and legitimate concerns of millions of hurting Americans whose wages have declined and whose job prospects have grown only bleaker.â€)
Sessions’ office won’t say when, or even if, he will formalize his support, but his enthusiasm clearly stands out as far more overt than any other lawmaker’s.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.rollcall.com ...
Didn’t Trump just say nice things about Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Maybe he has made a deal with them to return the favor!
Jeff Sessions has said he will not endorse anyone in the primaries and in my opinion, he’s come as close as he possibly can right now with Trump. My guess is he will make the VP list to Trump to pick from if we get that far...
Session is a good bet Canned Spam.
Crickets for Santrumpabee
A congressional endorsement has never entered into my decision making, can’t image too many people give a flying flip what a congressman has to say about a candidate.
Especially since they all have done such great jobs themselves!
Didn’t Chucky Schumer recently praise Trump?
Imagine doing that knowing all the dirt out there on trump.
Who would want their endorsement?
The less Congress speaks, the better.
Video of endorsement of Trump from a member of congress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg
Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi....the list is very long.
The Uniparty hasn't broken ranks yet.
I didn't know that...
Rooty Ghouliani endorsed him.
Cruz
Harry Reid?
Saying nice things about a democrat didn’t stop Sheriff Joe Arpio from supporting Trump and calling him a gift from God. The sheriff knows Trump is the only one running that will do anything about the illegal invasion of America. If Trump wins he should make Sheriff Joe the Director of United States Security. Get rid of that Nazi sounding Homeland garbage.
Well, he has given lots of money to Democrats. You’d think one of them might. And there is the money he’s given the Clitnos and Planned Parenthood.
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