By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday that he is running for his old U.S. Senate seat in Alabama.
“Our freedoms have never been under attack like they are today. We have major party candidates for President campaigning on socialism, confiscating firearms, and closing down churches they disagree with,” Sessions said in a news release. “I’ve battled these forces my entire life, and I’m not about to surrender now. Let’s go!”
Sessions lauded President Trump in a video accompanying the announcement, saying Trump is “doing a good job for America and Alabama.”
Sessions stepped down from the Senate seat after he was appointed Trump’s first attorney general in 2017. The relationship quickly soured after Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation.
Sessions joined a crowded field of Republicans running against incumbent Democrat Doug Jones, who won in an upset over GOP candidate Roy Moore in 2017.
