Former US attorney general Sessions loses Alabama nomination to football coach

Former US attorney general Sessions loses Alabama nomination to football coach
Election 2020-Alabama-Senate
Wed, 15 Jul, 2020 - 06:57
Kim Chandler and Bill Barrow, Associated Press

Former US attorney general Jeff Sessions has lost the Republican nomination for his old Senate seat in Alabama to an ex-football coach endorsed by President Donald Trump.

Mr Sessions was defeated in Tuesday’s Republican run-off by former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville, who the president tweeted “will be a GREAT Senator”.

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