Sessions Defeated By Tuberville In Alabama GOP Primary Race For Former Senate Seat | Talking Points Memo

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions lost an Alabama Senate Republican primary race on Tuesday to former college football coach Tommy Tuberville, a major blow to the former attorney general who spent much of the race battling opposition from President Donald Trump.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1320609
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The President endorsed Tuberville in March, calling the former Auburn University football coach in tweets “a REAL LEADER who will never let MAGA/KAG, or our Country, down!”

A real leader will NOT

  1. Let MAGA - Morons Are Governing America
  2. KAG - Kill American Geriatrics
  3. Let Russia put bounty on our US Soldiers
  4. Endanger our country and its citizens like CoronaDon is doing…

Trump Death Clock = 81,285
Estimated U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Due To POTUS Inaction

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RIP Jeff Sessions: racist, drug policy regressionist, kinda sorta did the right thing once.

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OT but far more important:

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Get out of your country as fast as you can…oh wait…sorry, no one will let Americans in.

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I have no idea how this photo came to be, did the dude from Goya ask for a favor? The more important point being, no one who supports Trump would ever likely be buying black beans from a can with a Spanish name and the words “frijoles negros” on it. Those who might consider buying these beans however, are now far more likely not to because of this cheap, corrupt, pathetic photo.

It’s honestly laughable (excepting the fact that it is simultaneously incredibly corrupt). What a ridiculous picture.

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Being an early supporter of Trump in 2016 came with a heavy price tag. Trump’s turn to pay a price.

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Tommy Tuberville- A college football coach who was involved with a shady hedge fund. Plays footsie with the confederacy. Even his former players want nothing to do with him.
Senator Doug Jones-A prosecutor who locked up the Birmingham church bombers and wants to move the state forward. Most sentient people can see the difference, hopefully most Alabamans do.

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“I leave elected office with my integrity intact,” Sessions said.

Excuse me, Senator. Reality on line one. Says something about “who are you trying to kid?”.

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What’s a ‘Bama fan supposed to do? Vote for Auburn’s sleazy coach?

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Not just corrupt…its illegal. And not even kinda, maybe, shades of grey, illegal…Its a straight up violation of 5 CFR § 2635.702 - Use of public office for private gain.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.702

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You are old and worthless to America and the Trumplican Party.
Confess your sins publicly and how fucked of Trump is and how he has ruined our county.Or will you go to your grave loving him?

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Kind of hard in ruby red Alabama. While voting Jones makes common sense, most people there don’t rely on common sense (apologies to common sense voters in Alabama, but then again, I’m in Georigia so I can sympathize)

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From today forward, there will be 0.00 deaths reported . . .

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Which just goes to show you how badly Sessions got beat.

He should have had roughly 50-60% of the vote in his favor, because Tuberville was Auburn’s coach. But instead, he grovelled like the worm he is…and such displays of weakness are completely unacceptable to the GOP vote in AL…and he ended up losing about half of those.

Sadly for Jones, however, being a Democrat in AL is far, far worse than being from Auburn.

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To impress upon Sir Geoffrey the consequences of hitching ones star to a Titanic Anchor like Lord John of Barron, I have decided to quote from a long-lost but very recently unearthed unpublished tragedy by William Shakespeare, “Prince Marcellus of the City of Angels, or A Fiction of the Pulp”:

“Lo, fetid knave William of the Hill! I hath resolved to rain cyclonic torrents of medieval upon thine expansive posterior, foul fornicator of ones own matriarch!”

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This is beyond outrageous.

Will the Johns Hopkins metrics still be able to stay current? Or will all information be embargoed & only selective rays of sunshine get to be shared?

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This is bad for Jones, no? Not that Sessions would have lost Alabama either, but I have to think the petulance from the White house over the matter would somewhat depress enthusiasm.

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