Posted on 11/06/2019 2:45:00 PM PST by janetjanet998
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce he’s running for his old Senate seat in Alabama.
Sessions is expected to make the announcement on Thursday. His decision to run was confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday by two Republicans with direct knowledge of his plans. They were not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Sessions long held the seat he will now pursue but stepped down to serve as President Donald Trump’s first attorney general. He was ousted after enduring public mocking from Trump for recusing himself from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
He had $50 million spent against him and barely lost.
You don’t know what you are talking about.
Did Moore lose?
It’s a yes or no question.
He was a terrible candidate.
He was a great candidate and can easily win.
PS.
I know Moore won’t be the nominee this time around.
That old glue horse is done.
Looking at your posts, we agree on pretty much everything!
Peace.
Hey, if you want a buddy for Mitt Romney, then nominate this loser. Because that’s what he’ll become.
TRUST SESSIONS. TRUST THE PLAN. (ARE YOU TIRED OF WINNING YET?)
Even St. Jude can’t help Jeff Sessions’ hopeless cause.
Peace
Sessions was behind the scene doing many other things.He did what was expected of him.He will return.
it seemed to me, sessions joined those trying to remove the president... do we trust him to not be a romney? I sure don’t!
If sessions had not recused and did his job.. where would we be by now...
“Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce he’s running for his old Senate seat in Alabama.”
This has to be a bad dream.
Sessions has done nothing of note except excuse himself and then sit in a closed room playing video games.
There’s nothing else to his name for 2.5 years.
I agree.
Yeah... No.
No I’ve been very harsh on Sessions but the political calculus back in 2017 showed the best course of action was taken.
Trump had a hostile, a very hostile Senate. Although McConnell was and still is the Senate Majority Leader, he could not get the votes aligned like he would have wanted. There were too many nasty Never-Trumpers in the GOP Senate and they had a following.
Jess Sessions was at least a person that the GOP Senate knew, He had been part of their club.
Trump barely got Sessions confirmed. If he had chosen any other, it would have been worse except for Rosenstein whose wife is part of the Deep State network. Rosenstein got confirmed easily. He is the one that stabbed POTUS in the back, not Sessions.
If Sessions had not recused himself after promising he would during his confirmation hearings, the Senate would have had their first case where Sessions went back on his word which is NOT how he operates.
As it was POTUS had to deal with a nasty Senate and Sessions was there recused and knowledgeable about the Senate ‘club’.
Back then I was screaming Sessions should resign! But that would have done nothing except let Rosenstein run wild with everything and it would have left POTUS with acting appointments which was not a bad choice but acting appointments are limited to 210 days. That throws out timing and long term strategizing.
If Sessions had not promised to recuse himself from the Russia bullsh*t, the next nominee would also have been forced to recuse if there had been any contact with Russians. And if another appointment had been made to take Sessions place, the Senate would not have appointed until they were convinced the nominee would do their bidding and not the President’s.
Idiotic backstabbing GOP Senators like McCain, Flake, etc. were all in with the stupid Russia-collusion BS. Some of them actually thought there was something to the Russia-collusion narrative. It was blasting away on CNN everyday. Idiots in the Senate would shame anyone that thought to call the Russia-Collusion crap for what it was, which was bullshit. None of the GOP Senators knew enough to call it what it was in 2017, 2018. There was a special counsel, and CNN blasting away daily, constituents calling in expressing anger that the Russians had interfered and rigged the election or whatever.
And over on the other side, the House, a corrupt little weasel of a politician named Paul Ryan was ready to fire the kill shot (impeach) at Trump if he was asked.
What a mess.
It’s a miracle and a testament to Trump’s fortitude in the face of darkness among powerful evil people, that he overcame it all.
But Sessions was not evil, he was not an enemy, he was supportive to a certain extent. He just didn’t have the courage in him to match Trump’s courage. Sessions was a ‘Senate’ member of that club. That’s his world and he always voted conservative to show his constituents back home that they could expect him to vote conservative and he did so at every opportunity.
Therefore, Sessions is not going to engage in any betrayal or backstabbing of the President if he wins the Senate seat.
Sessions was always good for conservatives when he was in the Senate, he will be the same if he wins.
I see no other candidates that appear as reliable as Sessions. POTUS needs that Alabama seat for the GOP bad. If Sessions can reel it in, POTUS will be better off.
You avoid his betrayal. He knew in advance he was going to betrayed his President. We are never going to agree, but Sessions was at best a Deep State tool, at worse a double agent who should be judged for for the traitor that he was.
> “We are never going to agree”
I agree.
It’s: “You’re an ass”, not “Your an ass”, thank you. And judging from the NUMEROUS traitor-Sessions comments here and elsewhere, 1.) Sessions has little base of what he once had. 2.) Throw Dem $$$$ into the mix, hell bent on making a statement about keeping that seat, and 3.) a sure to be primary /3rd party candidate to syphon off Conservative votes ... and the traitor is is trouble already
The conservative mask fell off Jeff.
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