Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on Sunday endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential bid, adding to the growing number of lawmakers who have now voiced their support for the frontrunner in the Republican primary.
During a rally in Alabama on Sunday, Sessions said that Trump will address the immigration system in the United States.
“You have asked, for 30 years, and politicians have promised for 30 years to fix illegal immigration. Have they done it?” Sessions asked the crowd.
In response, the crowd yelled “No!”
“Donald Trump will do it,” Sessions then said.
During his time in the Senate, Sessions has pushed for more limits on immigration into the U.S. And his approval in the presidential race has been sought after.
One of the senator’s aides had left his office to work for the Trump campaign, and Sessions appeared at a rally with Trump in August, but he had held off on an endorsement until now.
“This election is our last chance to save U.S. sovereignty and to end the domination of the political establishment over the interests of working Americans,” Sessions said in a Sunday statement released by the Trump campaign. “Trump alone has rejected the donor class, defending America’s jobs and wages from open borders, uncontrolled immigration and the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership that will cede U.S. authority to foreign powers. Trump’s trade and immigration plans will revitalize our shrinking middle class, keeping jobs and wealth and income inside the United States of America. Trump understands that a nation must always place the interests of its own people first.”
I’m getting curious about something: It’s one thing for The Party not to be able to shut down a populist. But if it can’t even punish a defector to the populist’s camp, is it still a party at all?
Stumpy the Dwarf endorses Stumpy Fingers as his last hope for a nomination to his rightful place on the Supreme Court…
Good point. Sessions is one of the dumbest (and shortest) Republicans around yet his fellow GOP Senators will give him a pass on any punishment. See, IOKIYAR is alive and active even for elected official too dumb to tie their own shoelaces. Yes, it’s an amazing thing he’s too stupid to comprehend. His support for Trump is leveraged on the odds he’ll win while his fellow Pubbies, much wiser, have already done all but hold a news conference saying that Hillary will clean his clock if he’s the GOP nominee. Hence, the Senate flips over to the Democrats, Sessions loses all committee posts and maybe even loses his seat the next time to a more radical Tea Party type.
But of course he’s too dumb to…well, you know.
Oh, that’s why Trump wouldn’t condemn the KKK. He didn’t want to lose Sessions ’ endorsement.
I’m trying to think of an analogy. Something akin to rats leaving a drowning ship, which will be appropriate come November. But right now they’re trying to jump to the biggest prick, which sounds like gay porn.