One way or another, if Sessions wins the run off then POTUS will HAVE to support him. What’s he going to do? Endorse the Democrat? Sessions winning the run off would require a lot of walking back on Trump’s part.
So on the surface it appears that, if Sessions wins the run off, Trump will have painted himself into a corner because failed to look ahead and consider that Sessions might win - except that Trump never paints himself into a corner and is too smart not to have foreseen that possibility. So Lisa Mei Crowley’s theory on why POTUS would engage in such an ostensibly politically risky squabble when he could have taken a lower profile regarding the race is as good as any I can think of at the moment.
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