Former Sen. Jeff Sessions and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville advanced to a runoff election in Alabama's Republican Senate primary. Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and five other candidates were also in the race.
Jeff Sessions talks with the media after voting in Alabama's primary election, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Mobile, Ala. The former Attorney General is part of a seven person field in the state's Republican Senate primary jockeying for the GOP nomination and the right to challenge Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in November.
The 73-year-old Sessions served in the Senate for two decades before becoming President Donald Trump’s first attorney general. Tuberville, 65, used to coach at Auburn University. The winner will likely be a strong challenger to Jones, who defeated a scandal-plagued Moore in December 2017 to become Alabama’s first Democratic senator in a quarter-century. Jones is the only Democrat in a statewide office in the GOP-controlled state.
Sessions has maintained loyalty to Trump, noting that he was the first U.S senator to endorse Trump in 2016 and arguing he would be the most effective in advancing Trump’s agenda.
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