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Jeff Sessions May Run For Alabama Senate Seat

Hank Berrien
Jeff Sessions May Run For Alabama Senate Seat
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Reports are surfacing that former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, 72, who served as a senator from Alabama for 20 years, is thinking of running for his Alabama Senate seat in 2020. Sessions must decide by November 8 if he will attempt to run. Sessions was elected Attorney General of Alabama in 1994 and subsequently was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, then reelected in 2002, 2008, and 2014.

The Washington Times reported that YellowHammer News stated that Sessions “has been taking meetings and making calls regarding a run for his old Senate seat. He is now strongly considering mounting a candidacy.” After Sessions became Attorney General, a special election was held in Alabama to determine his successor; Democratic Sen. Doug Jones won after his GOP opponent, Judge Roy Moore, was accused of sexual harassment in the past.

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