Jeff Sessions is considering running for his old Senate seat against Doug Jones.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Politico. 

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is considering running for his old Senate seat in Alabama against Doug Jones. Politco. Sessions would join a crowded field if he did, including Rep. Bradley Byrne, former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, Secretary of State John Merrill, state Rep. Arnold Mooney and Roy Moore, who famously lost against Doug Jones in 2017 after a sex scandal ruined his campaign. Sessions remains popular in Alabama but his biggest hurdle would be his former boss, President Trump. Trump and Sessions had a very difficult working relationship and Trump blames Sessions for the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller. Sessions has until November 8th to decide if he wants to join the race. 

My Comment:

I'm of two minds of this. On the one hand, I think Sessions could potentially win. He's still popular in Alabama and was a successful senator there. He's got national name recognition and would probably be the frontrunner. 

He would also likely knock Roy Moore out of the race. Though I am on record on saying that Moore was railroaded by the media, he still not electable. He had a series of scandals long before the sex scandal took down his campaign and allowed Doug Jones to win, and he's already proven that he can't win a Senate race. Sessions would likely be able to take the seat back, but even if he would have an uphill battle, he would do better than Roy Moore. 

On the other hand, Sessions really did screw over President Trump with his recusal on the Russia matter. If he had shown a little backbone he would have likely prevented the appointment of the Special Counsel, which would have given President Trump much more freedom, probably saved the House in 2018 and would have prevented the current impeachment drama. 

Sessions was a pretty terrible Attorney General. Though he did have some success against human trafficking, he failed pretty miserably at everything else. He didn't do anything to protect gun rights, stop the conspiracy against President Trump or clean house at the FBI. But he did crack down on legal marijuana dealers, which was nobody else's priority. His priorities were so out of wack people either though he was going senile or was actively working against the President. 

The relationship with President Trump is probably dead too. I doubt Trump would endorse him even to win back the Senate seat, while even Roy Moore would probably get a better reception than Sessions would. Stranger things have happened but I can't see President Trump endorsing him, and that endorsement would go a long way in Alabama. 

I personally think that Sessions shouldn't run. There are four other candidates that are viable in the race and getting Roy Moore out isn't worth it. If I lived in Alabama I would be voting for pretty much any of the other candidates over Sessions and Moore. That being said, even the incompetent and useless version of Sessions we had at Attorney General would be better than Doug Jones...