Trump signals support for Tuberville over Sessions in Alabama Senate runoff

After months of silence as Jeff Sessions sought a return to the Senate, President Trump mocked his former attorney general in a tweet that was tantamount to an endorsement of his Republican opponent Tommy Tuberville ahead of their run-off election in Alabama to decide the GOP nomination. Tuberville narrowly edged Sessions for first place in Tuesday's Republican Senate primary, 33.4% to 31.6%. But the former head football coach at Auburn University fell short of a majority of the vote, leaving the nomination to be decided in an April 14 run-off election. The winner will take on Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in November. Enter Trump.

The president is popular with Republican voters in Alabama, so much so that a signal of support for Tuberville or Sessions could be the difference maker in the race. Sessions, among Trump's earliest supporters in the 2016 campaign, served for years as a senator from Alabama before being appointed attorney general. On Wednesday, Trump appeared to signal his preference for Tuberville in a tweet that lampooned Sessions's second place finish and accused him of disloyalty for his handling of the Russia investigtion that began under his leadership of the Justice Department. "This is what happens to someone who loyally gets appointed Attorney General of the United States & then doesn’t have the wisdom or courage to stare down & end the phony Russia Witch Hunt. Recuses himself on FIRST DAY in office, and the Mueller Scam begins!" he wrote.

The president did not endorse a candidate prior to the primary and has previously criticized Sessions for recusing himself from the two-year investigation into Russian election interference and Trump’s 2016 campaign in March of 2017, two months after Trump took office. Last year, Sessions told the Washington Examiner in an interview that he has no regrets for his handling of the Russia probe or his decision to recuse himself. Whoever wins the primary is in position to claim the seat as race analysts have predicted Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who won in 2018 against Republican Roy Moore, will have a hard time winning reelection in Alabama.

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/03/us/elections/results-alabama-senate-primary-election.html

'Out of line': Ronna McDaniel fires back at Donna Brazile for telling her to 'go to hell'

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel responded to her former Democratic counterpart Donna Brazile's strong rebuke of her comments on a potential brokered convention for 2020 Democrats. McDaniel, in a Fox News interview Tuesday morning, discussed the possibility of a brokered Democratic convention and argued such a scenario would adversely affect Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Hours later, Brazile, who is now a Fox News contributor, told her to "go to hell" in a scathing diatribe. While the RNC chairwoman did dismiss Brazile in a tweet soon after, she was given the opportunity to further respond to the attack in an interview on the network late Tuesday night.

"It’s never fun to have your teenagers come home from school and say, 'Hey mom, you’re trending on social media because some woman said you should go to heck.' But that being said, politics is a contact sport, and you know, I think Donna was out of line with her response," she explained. "Of course, we all recognize that the Democrats did put the thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton in 2016 because of Donna, because of the book that she wrote, she exposed that." McDaniel added, "I felt very in my lane saying that this is happening. I don't think it’s something that we can't discuss, and I think her response was a little out of line and disproportionate to my comments earlier today."

Brazile, also in a subsequent interview Tuesday evening, addressed her outburst. "Let me just say this: As long as I'm alive, I'm going to speak truth to power," the former DNC chairwoman said. "And I want to make sure that the chairwoman — I know what her job is like — but I want her to understand, to respect the process on the Democratic side … Democracy is messy, but do not tell the world that the Democratic Party is trying to rig it for one candidate."

When Brazile was leading the Democratic National Committee, she shared debate questions with 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ahead of primary debates and faced accusations that the party was rigging the nominating contest against Sanders. She later wrote a book in which she admitted that a fundraising agreement between the Clinton campaign and the DNC "sure looked unethical."

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‘So selfish’: Trump hits Warren for 'badly' hurting Sanders on Super Tuesday

President Trump blamed Sen. Elizabeth Warren for Joe Biden’s strong Super Tuesday performance against Sen. Bernie Sanders. Biden outperformed Sanders in many key states, including Warren’s home state of Massachusetts, leaving the former vice president with a more than 70-delegate lead over the Vermont senator. Trump claimed Sanders would have defeated Biden in more states if Warren hadn’t stayed in the race. “So selfish for Elizabeth Warren to stay in the race. She has Zero chance of even coming close to winning, but hurts Bernie badly. So much for their wonderful liberal friendship,” he tweeted Wednesday morning. “Will he ever speak to her again? She cost him Massachusetts (and came in third), he shouldn’t!”

Trump also credited the “Democratic establishment” for working together to stop Sanders from running away with the nomination “again.” The president accused the Democratic Party of “rigging” the election against Sanders in 2016 several times in recent months. “The Democrat establishment came together and crushed Bernie Sanders, AGAIN! Even the fact that Elizabeth Warren stayed in the race was devastating to Bernie and allowed Sleepy Joe to unthinkably win Massachusetts. It was a perfect storm, with many good states remaining for Joe!” he tweeted.

No candidates have dropped out following Super Tuesday’s results so far. Warren and Bloomberg each picked up a few dozen delegates in the contest, and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard also earned her first delegate.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/so-selfish-trump-hits-warren-for-badly-hurting-sanders-on-super-tuesday

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1235176283740524546

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1235171235505598465

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Re: Potus Tweet about Jeff Sessions:

Thinking what do any of us really know about Tuberville..he is virtually unknown to us..this tweet could perhaps have been comms to DIG, on Tuberville. It is after all what we do here!

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