BREAKING: Jeff Sessions, who was ousted by President Trump in 2018, has lost his bid to run for his old U.S. Senate seat in Alabama to former Auburn Univ. football coach Tommy Tuberville, AP projects.
Political strategists had said that Tuberville's outsider status and his time as head football coach at Auburn could help carry him to a win on Tuesday.
"The outsider is now who has the upper hand in every race these days," said David Mowery, a political strategist based in Montgomery who has worked for both Republicans and Democrats."It's hard to turn that into a negative in 2020 Republican primaries." Tuberville is also remembered"fondly from a time when Auburn football was successful," said David Hughes, a political science professor at Auburn University at Montgomery,"and people in the South really do take SEC football seriously."
Sessions and Tuberville entered the runoff after neither won a majority in the March 3 primary, with Tuberville leading with 33.4 percent of the vote and Sessions coming in second at 31.6 percent. The runoff was initially scheduled for March 31 but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, prolonging the race by more than three months.
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