Jeff Sessions, Tommy Tuberville headed to runoff in Alabama GOP Senate race

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published 4 March 2020

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and onetime Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville will face off March 31 in a runoff for the Alabama Republican Senate nomination.

Sessions spent 20 years as a Republican senator representing Alabama, stepping down in 2017 in order to serve as President Trump's attorney general. After a difficult tenure, during which Trump routinely mocked Sessions and said he wished he chose someone else to serve as attorney general, Sessions was forced out in 2018.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.