Cast out by Trump, Jeff Sessions struggles in Alabama to win back a Senate seat

[Zorro]

For a man who was once the most popular politician in Alabama, Jeff Sessions cut a lonely figure as he slipped into a packed room of Republicans this weekend to urge them to help him return to the Senate.

When the 73-year-old former senator and, more recently, President Trump’s attorney general arrived at the Vestavia Hills Civic Center for a breakfast hosted by the Jefferson County Republican Party, a few party loyalists shook his hand and exchanged pleasantries. But many barely glanced at Sessions as they sipped coffee and poured Aunt Jemima syrup onto paper plates stacked with pancakes and bacon.

“I don’t have anything to say to him,” Jimmy Carmack, 67, a beekeeper from Center Point, said with a shrug as he watched Sessions stand awkwardly at the edge of the room making small talk with voters. “He’s had his time and we’re ready for someone else.”

Sessions, who supported Trump long before other Republican leaders took the former reality-TV star seriously, ironically finds himself at a disadvantage in Tuesday’s Republican primary, after a race that has been something of a contest for who is the most pro-Trump Republican.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-01/cast-out-by-trump-can-jeff-sessions-win-back-his-senate-seat

What a pathetic figure.

[Wounded Bear]

1. So maybe Doug Jones is not in as much trouble as we thought? nt

[Lochloosa]

3. A rabid dog on the repug ticket will cause trouble for Doug in AL.

It's Alabama.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Yeah, I know...

the old Yellow dog Dixiecrats will vote for any piece of elephant shit they put up these days.

[cojoel]

19. My hope is a strong African American turnout will propel Jones to victory

Jones gets a lot of loyalty from the community because he prosecuted the KKK church bombers many years later. I hope and pray everyday that Jones gets reelected.

[Whiskeytide]

4. Two factions of The Dem party leadership...

... are suing each other here. Doug needs all the help he can get.

[Me.]

8. Fingers Crossed

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. IF every Democrat in Alabama gets out and votes for Doug, we "may" have a chance.

If not, the result is a foregone conclusion for an R.
Yes, I live here.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Yeah, understand...

But a guy can hope, you know...

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. If it were possible to vote for him 20 times, I would. He has been a

pleasant surprise since being elected.

[Ilsa]

2. Aunt Jemima? I guess republicans wouldn't be caught

dead in this new era using Log Cabin.

[brush]

7. Maple is the only way to go.

[trof]

20. meh...Cane syrup or molasses!

[brush]

22. Agree to disagree?

[Brother Buzz]

11. What in the "Sam Hill"?

No self-respecting Alabamian would use anything but molasses

[DarthDem]

5. Pathetic indeed

I was just thinking the same before I got to your color commentating at the end.

Couldn't happen to a greater guy.

[Coventina]

6. Let me get out my tiny violin....

[Thomas Hurt]

10. GOP races are turning into contests to see who kiss more of the amoral pig's butt than the other.

Heil Trumpenfuhrer!

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. You've noticed that too, huh? nt

[Thomas Hurt]

16. The christofascist running against Cornyn in TX is saying he isn't Trumpy enough, LOL

[UTUSN]

17. Even if he wins, he's got a YUGE tolerance for being humiliated.

[edhopper]

18. Doug Jones has been great

but Sessions still leads by over 10%, it's Alabama, we won't win.
It took the Repukes running a pedophile last time and Jones still only won by less than 1%.

[trof]

21. The 3 top repug candidates are trying to out-god, out-gun, and out-trump each other.

[Ace Rothstein]

23. Sessions is 73 years old.

Is he broke and needs the money? I don't understand why so many politicians feel the need to stay in office until they are dying.

[Vinca]

24. Poor Jeff. Doesn't he know the King already has a pet named Mike? No need to suck up.