2020 U.S. Senate race will be fun to watch

The long, hot summer has brought some crystallization to the 2020 U.S. Senate race in Alabama. This seat was held by Jeff Sessions for almost two decades, until he made a strange and probably regrettable decision to join President Donald J. Trump’s administration as attorney general. Few U. S. senators with 20 years seniority would leave their permanent seats in the illustrious, powerful and elite Senate for a temporary, four-year-at-best tenure in a tumultuous and transient cabinet post.

Trump is tempestuous at the least and still likes to think of himself as the host of his TV reality show, The Apprentice, who famously said, “You’re fired!” on each episode. Trump recently tweeted that choosing Sessions as attorney general was the most regrettable appointment that he has made. You can more than likely ascertain that Sessions feels the same way about his decision to leave his safe Senate seat for a turn as Trump’s attorney general. You can safely bet, however, that the reserved, squeaky clean, Dudley Do-Right, Eagle Scout Sessions will not do any tweeting, or betting, on anything, much less his Trump controversy.

That’s why the biggest question regarding the 2020 Senate race in the Heart of Dixie is whether Sessions would run to get his seat back. The answer is that he considered it. He was encouraged to run by the Republican establishment, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in Washington. But he decided that at age 72 he will not seek to regain the seat.

My thoughts are that he could have and probably would have won, although his decision not to run will make for some good theater.

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