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Jeff Sessions poised for comeback and still cheering Trump

By Paul Bedard

Published April 24, 2020 12:10pm ET

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Jeff Sessions poised for comeback and still cheering Trump — Jeff Sessions and his wife Mary arrive to vote in Alabama's primary election, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Mobile, Ala. His in a July runoff with former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville.

The last four years have been tumultuous for Alabama’s Jeff Sessions.

The state’s most popular senator — he won with 97.25% of the vote in his last reelection — Sessions hit a new high when he was the first senator to endorse then-long-shot presidential hopeful Donald Trump in 2016, eventually winning his dream job of attorney general.

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