Republican Tommy Tuberville Tops Jeff Sessions, Likely to Win Runoff and Face Senator Doug Jones in November –

Doug Jones with former Vice President Joe Biden

By Glynn Wilson –

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Joe Biden came back from the political dead on Super Tuesday and reemerged as the front runner in the Democratic Party’s primary race to take on President Donald Trump in November, although Bernie Sanders is hanging in strong while Elizabeth Warren fades and Mike Bloomberg’s big money gambit didn’t exactly pay off.

The former Senator and Vice President under President Barack Obama seemed to be fading as the front runner after losses in Iowa and New Hampshire. But after picking up a win in South Carolina last week and after Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer dropped out, Biden emerged as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party establishment with big wins in Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama.

Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders won the biggest delegate prize of them all on Tuesday, March 3, however, winning California, along with Utah and Colorado in the West and his home state of Vermont.

According to the New York Times delegate estimates, Biden is back in the lead with 45 percent of the delegates, 650, followed by Sanders with 39 percent, 589.

While former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg spent more than all the other candidates combined on adverting leading up to Super Tuesday, he only won in American Samoa. But he picked up 7 percent of the delegates, 104, to edge out Elizabeth Warren, who only has 97 delegates and even lost her home state of Massachusetts to Biden, who did not even show up to campaign in the state.

It is hard to see a path forward for the only woman left in the race. The most significant effect of Bloomberg’s late entry into the campaign seems to be to knock Warren out, and to lead to a brokered convention in July with only two old white men left as viable candidates to go after Trump in November, a troubling fact to many democrats who saw the start of this year’s election begin with a widely diverse field of women and African Americans.

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MEANWHILE down in Alabama, where the balance of power in the United States Senate could be decided, it looks like the pundits have been stumped again and Democrat Doug Jones could end up facing a football coach and Trump fan in the general election in November.

Tommy Tuberville: Facebook

In spite of all the sympathetic ink given to former Senator and Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions leading up to Super Tuesday, with most pundits predicting Sessions could take his old seat back even after being berated by Trump for recusing himself in the Mueller investigation, Sessions lost to former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville, leaving Congressman Bradley Byrne without a job and Roy Moore out in the political cold.

With 85 percent of precincts counted as of Wednesday morning, Tuberville was leading Sessions 34 percent to 31. Since neither will reach the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff, they will face off March 31.

But unlike the analysis coming out of New York, Washington and Birmingham, Tuberville has to be seen as the inevitable favorite. It’s obvious that Alabama’s Republican voters, as opposed to the Business Council chamber of commerce crowd, would rather have a football coach than a career politician representing them in Washington.

I mean almost no one even showed up in Mobile at Sessions’ election night party. The New York Times called it “a sparsely attended gathering of supporters on Tuesday night in a hotel banquet room in Mobile.”

But the Times spent most of the ink and space talking about Sessions anyway, as has the Washington Post in recent days.

For his part, Senator Doug Jones released an email Tuesday night warning about all the “dark money spending” in “a race to see who can be the most extreme, divisive candidate possible, lying about Doug’s record.”

“If you thought the Republican primary race to run against Doug was bad enough, it’s about to get a whole lot worse,” the campaign said. “We’re now down to just extreme Tommy Tuberville and divisive Jeff Sessions, and they’ve got four weeks to slug it out until the runoff …

“We’ve already seen that nothing is off limits. They’re going to spend the next four weeks arguing about who can be the most extreme. We don’t know who’s going to win, but we know one thing: Whoever wins on March 31st is going to immediately turn their fire on Doug. They’ve spent millions so far attacking each other. Doug’s next … We know we’re going to face the full force of Mitch McConnell’s machine. We have to spend the next 28 days making sure we have what it takes to respond.”

President Trump’s Twitter account went off about Sessions’ loss, saying “This is what happens to someone who loyally gets appointed Attorney General of the United States & then doesn’t have the wisdom or courage to stare down & end the phony Russia Witch Hunt. Recuses himself on FIRST DAY in office, and the Mueller Scam begins!”

Tuberville responded: “Mr. President, I could not agree more, and in 27 days help will be on the way!”

Mr. President, I could not agree more, and in 27 days help will be on the way! https://t.co/LFxASKgwBv

— Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville) March 4, 2020