The Tuberville Sessions

The original Trump superfan Jeff Sessions has been…OUTFLANKED:

Jeff Sessions spent his final days on the campaign trail reiterating his support for President Trump’s agenda, reminding voters of his efforts to curb illegal immigration while attorney general and emphasizing how, as a senator, he had endorsed Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign at a time when few others in Washington would.

But in the end, it wasn’t enough. And in truth, after Mr. Trump endorsed Mr. Sessions’s opponent, it probably never was.

On Tuesday, Mr. Sessions fell far short in the Alabama Senate Republican runoff election to Tommy Tuberville, a former Auburn University football coach whose platform was largely a blanket promise to support the president at all times. Mr. Tuberville celebrated the results that evening at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery.

“People in Alabama voted against Jeff Sessions because Donald Trump told them to,” said Angi Stalnaker, a Republican strategist in Alabama. “If it had been Donald Trump saying, ‘Go write in Mickey Mouse,’ 50 percent of them would have gone to write in Mickey Mouse.”

Trump bestowing his blessing on a mediocre peonage ball coach because one time Sessions but his commitment to racism over his commitment to Donald Trump is another excellent example of the closest thing Donald Trump has to a redeeming quality: his inevitable humiliation of his most important lickspittles.

Note to Crimson Tide fans:

Alabama fans, now is your chance for revenge https://t.co/Daqofz4176— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) July 15, 2020