The president endorsed the former Auburn head coach over his one-time attorney general in the runoff election set for the end of the month.
President Trump endorsed former college football coach Tommy Tuberville in the Republican Senate primary in Alabama Senate race, rebuking his former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is also a candidate for the seat he held for over three terms.
Tuberville and Sessions will compete in a runoff on March 31 after neither won a majority in last Tuesday’s primary. Tuberville got 33 percent of Republican voters to 31 percent for Sessions in the seven-candidate race. The winner will face Democratic incumbent Doug Jones in November, who won the seat in a 2017 special election after Sessions vacated it to serve as Trump’s attorney general.
Sessions left the Justice Department in November 2018 after Trump mounted a campaign on Twitter to force him out, heaping abuse on him for recusing himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Sessions had been a prominent backer and adviser to Trump’s campaign and couldn’t plausibly oversee the investigation, turning it over to his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel. Trump treated this as a betrayal by Sessions.
Story continuesTuberville is a big name in Alabama, but not for politics: He was head football coach for the Auburn Tigers for 10 seasons, including a 13-0 season that resulted in a No. 2 finish in the polls in 2004. He has also coached at Ole Miss, Texas Tech and Cincinnati, where he stepped down in 2016 after a 4-8 season.
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