Trump Can't Resist A Potshot As Jeff Sessions Lags Alabama Senate Primary

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to take a cheap shot at his former Attorney General and former Alabama senator, Jeff Sessions, as the Republican senate primary was closing. Sessions, seeking nomination to challenge Democrat Sen. Doug Jones in November, had recused himself from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Former Auburn football coach and current Trump golden boy Tommy Tubberville edged Sessions 33 percent to 32 percent on Super Tuesday. They will face each other in a runoff March 31. Jones barely bested oddball Judge Roy Moore in a contest to fill Sessions’ seat after Trump appointed the senator to head the Justice Department in 2017.

Trump hasn’t actually endorsed anyone.

Alabama loves college football. Tubberville’s Tigers’ were 85-40 in the decade he coached Auborn including a perfect season in 2004. His teams beat cross-state rival Alabama for six years in a row. Auburn lost Tubberville's last pair of games to Alabama, denying the coach a place in lore.

The front funner told a Republican gathering in June “More Middle Easteners than Mexicans are coming to America,” the Washington Post reported. “ They’re coming across the border, and they ain’t leaving. They’re coming for a reason. Folks, they’re taking over, and if we don’t open our eyes, it is going to be over with.”

Tubberville twice attacked the president, on trade and veteran’s health care, before former Trump mouthpiece Sean Spicer took over his campaign. Now Tubberville parrots Trump.

Sessions never publicly criticized the president. He said that would be dishonorable, according to the Post. Meanwhile, the former football coach even ran ads reminding Alabamans Trump called Sessions “the biggest mistake” of his first term.

Another Republican result receiving little attention is the death of the Bush legacy in Texas. Pierce Bush, the grandson of former President George HW Bush and nephew to former President George W Bush, did not make the cut in a crowded congressional seat in Texas’ 22nd district.

Bush ran the campaign his way and that cost him. Some suggested running in another congressional district where his family's political legacy was stronger, according to political scientists around Houston as quoted by The Texas Tribune.

They also said the loss could be a sign of the diminishing influence of the Bush family.

Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls and technology consultant Kathaleen Wall will face off in a May runoff election. Bush was third.