In bizarre campaign move, Rep. Mo Brooks encourages Jeff Sessions to retake his Senate seat

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While Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., calls it a “Resolution Reinstating Jeff Sessions as United States Senator,” his opponents are more likely to describe it as a political suicide pact with a special opt-out.

Here’s how it would work, per a contract cobbled together by the Alabama conservative. First, the entire Republican field would “simultaneously withdraw from this race.” Second, Sessions would run for his old seat. And third, Trump would appoint “whomever he wants as attorney general.”

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