Jeff Sessions was 'Trump before Trump' — will Alabama voters remember?
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — It was another era, in another Republican Party. Jeff Sessions was a backbench senator from Alabama who defied the Republican president and doomed a bipartisan immigration bill with claims it would let terrorists and child molesters pour across the border.
Ask Republicans today what they think of Sessions, who represented Alabama in the Senate for 20 years, and many of the same belittling adjectives that Trump has hurled at his former attorney general come spilling out. Story continuesSessions’ predicament says a lot about a Republican Party that Trump has turned into a vessel for his own political security, held together not by shared beliefs but instead by fealty to him. No one was more of an evangelist for the ideas Trump ran on than Sessions. Yet his political fate is now threatened because the president has declared him disloyal.
“I know he did something that made the president mad,” said Susan Woodman, a retired speech therapist who came away from the Huntsville event undecided but impressed with one of Sessions’ rivals, Tommy Tuberville, a former Auburn University football coach. “They’re good people,” he added of his rivals. “I just don’t think any of those candidates understand the significance historically of the issues that we are talking about.”
Working in Sessions’ office at the time as his communications director was Stephen Miller, now the White House adviser most associated with Trump’s hard-line approach to immigration. So far, polls show Sessions leading Byrne, Tuberville and a third opponent, Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court whose campaign for Senate in 2017 unraveled amid accusations that he had forced himself on teenage girls, costing Republicans the seat.
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