Trump Endorsed Tommy Tuberville Defeats Jeff Sessions in Republican Runoff for U.S. Senate

Former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated former Attorney General and US Senator Jeff Sessions for the Republican nomination for US Senate to face Democratic Sen. Doug Jones.

Jones was elected in a December 2017 special election to replace Sessions, who vacated the seat he represented for over 20 years to become President Donald Trump’s attorney general. Now, as Jones is up for re-election for a full term, Sessions is fighting for his old US Senate seat in what could make or break his political career.

Sessions and Tuberville advanced to a runoff, which was delayed to July 14 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, after the March 3 primary.

The race largely played out into a fight over which candidate is more loyal to Trump, who won the state by a margin of 27 percentage points in 2016 and remains highly popular in the state.

While Sessions had tried to tie himself to Trump, both Trump and his campaign have actively repudiated Sessions in the run-up to the runoff in addition to Trump endorsing Tuberville. (Read more from “Trump Endorsed Tommy Tuberville Defeats Jeff Sessions in Republican Runoff for U.S. Senate” HERE)

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