Nov 07, 2018 · After Trump won the White House, Sessions, who faced no opposition in his 2014 re-election to the Senate, gave up a safe seat to become Trump’s attorney general. During his confirmation hearing,...
Sessions, who was the first — and for a long time only — senator to endorse Trump in 2016, left the Senate to become Trump’s attorney general in February 2017. He had held the Senate seat ...
Tue 14 Jul 2020 22.16 EDT Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s former attorney general, has lost the Republican nomination in Alabama for his old Senate seat, after enduring months of …
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions Loses Alabama Runoff Election Jeff Sessions made his last ... though, did hold that Senate seat for 20 years before he joined the Trump administration ...
It wasn't a surprising loss for Sessions, though it is a brutal one. He gave up his seat in the Senate to become President Donald Trump's attorney general, and he lost his big chance to return...
Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 18.55 EST. Jeff Sessions , Donald Trump’s former attorney general, has lost the Republican nomination in Alabama for his old Senate seat, after enduring months of attacks from the president. His loss to Tommy Tuberville, a former college football coach, most likely marks an end to Sessions’ long political career.
Tommy Tuberville, Auburn University’s former football coach. Photograph: Joe Songer/AP. Familiar to Alabamians from his decade as Auburn University’s head football coach, Tuberville, 65, is now positioned for a robust challenge against the Democratic senator Doug Jones.
Jeff Sessions made his last political stand in Alabama's Republican Senate runoff Tuesday, losing to former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville, a political newcomer endorsed by President Trump. Jeff Sessions is out of the Alabama Senate race.
He was a former attorney general of the state, had been a U.S. attorney in Mobile. He made a somber speech from the Hampton Inn in Mobile last night. He's 73 years old now and said he ends his political career with no regrets and his integrity intact.
Another reason insiders are generally happy with Strange's appointment? He's a mix of Sessions — who is an ace at delivering firebrand messages to the right — and Alabama's senior senator, Shelby (R), who prefers to work behind the scenes to get things done.
Shortly after getting elected, Strange helped negotiate a settlement from the 2010 BP oil spill.
He'll face a primary in June 2018 and an election in November.
Bentley is facing potential impeachment and a criminal investigation after a former top police officer accused him of a sensational affair with a political staffer, raising questions of whether Bentley used state resources to carry it out. (Bentley has denied the affair but apologized for making inappropriate comments to a woman after a lurid conversation was caught on audiotape.)
Bentley is term-limited, which means there will be an open governor's race in 2018 no matter his legal standing. Everyone had expected Strange to be a top candidate, but now the field opens up. And the likeliest beneficiary of that is the head of the Alabama Senate, Sen. Del Marsh (R), who is widely seen as wanting to run for governor. Suspended state chief justice Roy Moore is another possibility.