He’s Donald Trump’s No. 1 advisor on Capitol Hill, somebody who has opened doors of conservatives for presumptive GOP presidential nominee, but don’t look for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to become the vice presidential nominee.
When asked about a Trump-Sessions ticket, the senator smiled, and said, “We’ve got enough problems.”
Instead of a southern senator, Sessions said that Trump “needs to get somebody who can help him win this election. And that’s what I support. And I’m not sure who that is, but I’m sure it won’t be me.”
Many conservatives have talked up Sessions as the vice presidential post, but other say that he prefers to stay in the Senate where he is a leading voice on criminal and immigration issues. He is 69.
Sessions has been working overtime to help Trump win support among lawmakers and pundits.
He also told Secrets that he expects Trump to win, in part because he is offering a message of economic hopefulness that is helping to restore the 1980 Reagan coalition of Republicans and blue collar Democrats.
That story is here.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
