It appears the former Senator and Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-AL) is finished with politics, having lost his primary battle with former football coach Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for the right to contest with the current Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) for his old Senate seat – decisively:
A 20+% point loss doesn’t bode well for any future for Sessions. He’s earned himself the reputation of a big failure along with that of being a lickspittle, but then he was running in a state which is still, reputedly, strongly pro-Trump.
And that will be the key for Tuberville. Between now and November will Alabama continue to be pro-Trump? That’s how this race will run, because Tuberville, beyond his frantic clutching of Trump, literally has nothing else in the tank. He’s a successful football coach, a failed hedge fund manager, and that’s it.
He’s the embodiment of the Trump / Ryan amateur-hour debacle to which we’ve been a witness: not only is he for what Trump is for, but he loves him, too. And he dares not criticize Trump, because, frankly, Tuberville has no relevant accomplishments that would soften Trump’s outrage at being criticized.
Can sitting Senator Jones (D-AL) beat that? Ask a few Alabamans. I’m still a little appalled, if unsurprised, that Tuberville won. Frankly, the Alabama GOP, by serving up a far-right denizen of the swamp and a football coach with no relevant qualifications as their primary candidates, for one of the most important elected positions in the nation, marks them as unserious and incompetent.
