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Why Jeff Sessions lost
Spectator USA ^ | July15,2020 | Daniel McCarthy

Posted on 07/16/2020 12:50:16 PM PDT by TBP

He was defeated by the new cyborg that is the Republican party — half-Trump, half-GOP machine of old.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions battled more than President Trump’s ire in his failed “bid to win back his Sessions, “for a long time the only ­Republican of national standing to support Trump in 2016, has no place in” a party that’s “half-Trump, half-GOP machine of old.” “Corporate America will not support an economic nationalist and an immigration restrictionist,” while Trump’s base is “confused by the claims” every Republican makes of being a “pro-Trump populist” and as “Trump himself pillories his former ally.” Therein lies “a warning for the president”: Pro-Trump voters hate “GOP, Inc.” and vice versa. He can only square that circle if he “runs as the man beyond party that he was four years ago.”old Senate seat”: He also faced a “remade” GOP.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; blameqanon; douchejones; dougjones; gop; jeffsessions; qtardsiswhy; sessions
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It insisted that I sign up to read the article. I have included above the summary of it from the New York Post, from which I linked to it.
1 posted on 07/16/2020 12:50:16 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

Sessions is a looser[sic].


2 posted on 07/16/2020 12:51:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: TBP

Sessions announced he would return to the treehouse and make toll house cookies with the other Keebler elves.


3 posted on 07/16/2020 12:52:48 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The cost of abortion is a human sacrifice.)
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To: TBP

I think the man may have munched one too many magic mushrooms.

I’m sure, like me, many can see the difference between Trump and the old party hacks.


4 posted on 07/16/2020 12:53:39 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: TBP

He actually explained why he lost pretty well. He also had a strong message for the GOPe, told them it is Trump’s party and they better get on board, or go down with the ship.


5 posted on 07/16/2020 12:54:23 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: PeteB570

His point is that Sessions is too Trumpist to appeal to the old party hacks, but made the Trumpists mad with recusal, so neither faction could really get behind him.


6 posted on 07/16/2020 12:54:58 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Alabama likes football. Tuberville is a personable coach. Out with the old and in with the new. Tuberville will win in November and do a great job.


7 posted on 07/16/2020 12:55:41 PM PDT by plain talk
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He did nothing as AG, so why would anyone expect him to do anything if they put him back in the Senate?


8 posted on 07/16/2020 12:56:16 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Because he was actually quite a good Senator.


9 posted on 07/16/2020 12:57:02 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Paladin2

Judas Sessions sold his soul the minute he recused himself from all things Rosenstein/Mueller/Russia. He opened the door for the corrupt FBI and DOJ to attempt to strangle the Trump Presidency in its infancy.


10 posted on 07/16/2020 12:57:55 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: plain talk

#AmnestyTommy WILL disappoint.


11 posted on 07/16/2020 12:58:43 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Sessions proved he was unreliable in the job the president signed him to do.
12 posted on 07/16/2020 12:59:47 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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Ya think it may be him being in government since 1981?


13 posted on 07/16/2020 1:00:54 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Sessions was NOT an Administrator.

The DOJ took him over the minute he assumed office.


14 posted on 07/16/2020 1:02:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: TBP

He lost because he screwed Trump, Mueller never should have been appointed. Sessions never should have recused himself.


15 posted on 07/16/2020 1:03:16 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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What’s amazing is Sessions has recused himself to this day. He still takes no responsibility and shows not a shred of remorse for his role in the coup that was launched against POTUS while he was AG in 2017. Meanwhile, his former deputy Rosenstein is on twitter supporting the ongoing coup hammer and tongs. I don’t think I’ve ever seen as tone deaf a politician as Jeff Sessions.


16 posted on 07/16/2020 1:03:22 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: itsahoot

What’s to explain? Whether deliberately or by stupidity, Sessions was a Trojan horse who greatly harmed the President who trusted him, and greatly harmed the nation. What Sessions did might be forgiven by some, but it’s obvious most Republican voters won’t forgive him.


17 posted on 07/16/2020 1:03:30 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Fight the Left - the communists - not our own.)
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To: TBP

Article is nonsense.
Sessions would still be a Senator had Trump not offered AG.
And Sessions not accepted. Sessions is responsible for turning
the wolves loose on Trump over a fake hoax
A hoax that stunted Trump’s first 2 1/2 years in office.
And is still being felt today.
He was a good Senator. But a terrible AG.
He was the wrong person for that job during that time.


18 posted on 07/16/2020 1:03:47 PM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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He lost because he was a Deep State plant in the Trump campaign/admin.................


19 posted on 07/16/2020 1:03:53 PM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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Sessions abandoned his post in the midst of a ferocious battle. Good riddance.


20 posted on 07/16/2020 1:07:35 PM PDT by bkopto
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