Jeb Bush, the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination at the time, won the primary, there was a roughly 0% chance Sessions would be the next attorney general. (He had been attorney general in Alabama prior to winning his Senate seat in 1996.) The problem? Sessions, who has one of the most conservative voting records in the Senate and had emerged as the loudest voice in the chamber on the threats posed to the country by illegal immigration, was not someone all that well regarded by the establishment of the party. He longed to be attorney general of the United States. In his late 60s at the time, Sessions could comfortably expect to hold his seat for as long as he chose – given his popularity in the Alabama and the state’s overwhelming Republican bent.īut, Sessions, who had been nominated to be a federal judge by Ronald Reagan in 1986 only to see the Senate block his nomination due to allegations of racism, wanted more. In mid 2015, Sessions was just settling in to his fourth term representing Alabama in the Senate, having been unopposed by any Democrat in his 2014 reelection race. Sessions didn’t name the chapter that had just closed but, if he had, it would have been titled: “The Trump Years.” And it would read like a tragedy. “I leave elective office with my integrity in tact,” Jeff Sessions said Tuesday night following his rout at the hands of former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville in a runoff for the Alabama Republican Senate nomination.
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