Every poll that has been released since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions entered the GOP field for U.S. Senate has had Jeff Sessions in the lead, whether it was by just two points or by as many as 10 points.
Predictably, Sessions main two rivals, former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville and Congressman Bradley Byrne, R-Montrose, have run ads taking shots at Sessions to try to bring him back to the field. On Monday, Sessions responded to the attacks.
“It is unfortunate that both Tommy Tuberville and Bradley Byrne have abandoned any pretense of running a positive campaign,” Sessions said. “But it is not surprising: both candidates are trailing in the polls, and when politicians like Tuberville and Byrne are losing, they become desperate and afraid. Both Tuberville and Byrne have quit on themselves and their campaigns. Neither can connect with voters on the merits of their ideas. It is sad to see them both descend to such a sleazy, low point.”
Sessions warned that he is capable of going negative to.
“If their baseless, desperate attacks continue, they will be forcefully answered,” Sessions added. “The key issue for Alabamians is who will most effectively and forcefully fight for their conservative values and interests, such as ending illegal immigration, protecting our jobs from unfair foreign competition, defending religious freedom, and further advancing the strong Trump economy.”
Bradley Byrne is currently running ads saying that Sessions failed as Trump’s attorney general and Tuberville failed as a head football coach.
Tuberville has criticized both Sessions and Byrne as “career politicians.”
“If the voters of Alabama want a career politician as their next U.S. Senator, then they have plenty of choices,” Tuberville told Breitbart News. “If they want a political outsider who will actually stand with President Trump and fight the DC establishment when it matters the most, I am the only choice. Jeff Sessions had a chance to stand and defend the President and he failed.”
GRIT PAC is a political action committee formed to help elect Tuberville to the U.S. Senate.
One GRIT PAC ad played a quote of an angry Pres. Trump, “The attorney general said, ‘I’m going to recuse myself,’ and I said, ‘Why the hell didn’t he tell me that before I put him in?’ He’s bad, he’s a bad, bad guy.”
“Time for Jeff to hang up the cleats. Say no to traitor Jeff Sessions,” adds a narrator at the end of the clip.
According to their filing with the Federal Elections Commission, GRIT PAC reported raising $111,500 from just seven donors in 2019: Smart Living LLC $6,000; Gulf Distributing Holdings LLC, $15,000, William Lester, $500; Lewis AMC LLC, $5,000; Colsa Corporation CEO Office Account, $25,000; Hometown Lenders INC,$25,000; and Frank Brown, $35,000.
Sessions was Attorney General from 2017 to 2018. He served in the Senate from 1997 to 2017. Prior to his Senate service, he served as: Alabama Attorney General, Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, U.S. Attorney under Presidents Bush and Reagan, assistant U.S. Attorney, and as Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves.
The Republican primary is on March 3. The winner of the Republican primary will face Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in the November general election.
