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good news everybody, GOP in-fighting continues in Alabama:

President Trump criticized Republican Alabama Senate candidate Jeff Sessions early Wednesday, asserting that his former attorney general didn’t win the state's GOP primary outright because of what Trump described as Sessions's lack of “wisdom or courage” in his handling of the Russia investigation.

“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,” Trump tweeted, just hours after news broke that Tuesday’s Senate primary in Alabama would advance to a runoff between Sessions and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville.

“Recuses himself on FIRST DAY in office, and the Mueller Scam begins!” Trump added.

Trump’s critical tweet about Sessions suggests the president may seek to boost Tuberville in the runoff election. Trump has thus far stayed out of the race, though a source familiar with the situation told The Hill last month that Trump could support Sessions’s opponent if the race advanced to a runoff. Still, Wednesday's tweet did not contain an explicit endorsement of Tuberville.

Trump repeatedly and publicly eviscerated Sessions for his decision to recuse himself from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference during his tenure as attorney general.

Sessions and Tuberville were running neck and neck after polls closed Tuesday night — Sessions held 31.6 percent of the vote and Tuberville 33.4 percent with 99 percent of precincts reporting.

Both candidates will compete for the Republican nomination in the March 31 runoff, and the winner will face Sen. Doug Jones in the November election. Jones is considered the most vulnerable Democratic senators facing reelection in 2020.

if tuberville becomes senator, i vote that we strip auburn's share of the 2004 ncaa football national championship.

sure they were undefeated, but there was no playoff then and the sec wasn't the behemoth it is now!

sorry, it's just really fucking weird to see tommy tuberville back in the news. it was weird when he was a coach too.

Either of the Republicans are going to paste Doug Jones. He barely beat the pedophile.

yeah but he was a MAGA Pedophile

spike in African American turnout required for Doug to win - it's possible

if Sessions wins the primary and Trump goes HAM on him, GOP vote will split

I saw some surprisingly internally consistent shit-talking from NRO/TPUSA psychos about Moore. I did not expect them to actually hold being a pedophile against one of their own.

Jones has a chance.

Another chance here, too:

Steve Bullock Is Poised to Run for Senate in Montana, Officials Say

My thing with the Doug Jones situation is that IF IF IF Tuberville somehow tackles Sessions for the nomination, I’m sure they’ll be able to dig up some dirt on him, but it will probably be of the “was a sadistic shitbag to his mostly black footbaw players” variety - which is a far cry, unfortunately, from the “forced himself on teenage girls” variety that ruined Moore.

AIPAC said Wednesday afternoon that a group of people who attended its conference are now on self-quarantine. https://t.co/qQmVFpnqYv

— The Intercept (@theintercept) March 5, 2020

Oops!

Jones has a chance.

Does incumbency carry any weight here?

please quarantine AIPAC til Sanders is elected

Good news: Susan Collins, Martha McSally, Thom Tillis, and Cory Gardner are all polling behind their opponents.
https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/democrats-lead-by-at-least-4-in-4-gop-held-senate-seats/

excellent.

We need 5 though, right? C’mon Bullock...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcS2UrjX6CRDoLkmWsQuEF_sXqmiY4wThXHJqFLbmlY8wahz9U2W

We need 5 though, right? C’mon Bullock...

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maybe joni ernst goes down too????

my mom owed me $20 so I told her to donate it to Tillis' opponent to square us up.

trump often sounds like he's doing a christopher walken impression

Here is the President of the United States telling the country it's okay to go to work with Coronavirus.

I'm not kidding. pic.twitter.com/Tz4kKbyear

— Matt Rogers 🎙 (@Politidope) March 5, 2020

if he says "this corona flu....virus" one more time my head will explode

Today in "too little, too late, GTFO asshole" news: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9W8bGvjTp-/

xp

oh wait, i was listening to it in a different tab and didn't realize it had repeated, nevermind. but i've heard him do that before (referring to it as the "flu")

"look the weak and susceptible have always been among us, why should the strong and resistant be penalized? if they wanna work, bless'em, that's capitalism."

can't believe it, it's like he's unfit for office

FFS Schumer great time to shit the bed you

fuck

oh my stars and garters!

So @SenSchumer apologized? What weakness. This is why you’re not majority leader. You apologize to people who want to destroy you.

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) March 5, 2020

was the Schumer thing in Eric's deleted instagram?

No, that was about a GOP guy coming out.

Not actually deleted, the posted link is messed up.

http://www.instagram.com/p/B9W8bGvjTp-/

...and that one is messed up too. C'n'P for yrselves please.

Former Congressman Aaron Schock, who resigned in 2015, has publicly come out as gay. pic.twitter.com/1J1kn9nhbj

— Stephen Sanchez (@SSanchezTV) March 5, 2020

what happened with Schumer

he said something sounded threatening to gorsuch/kavanaugh, and that's behavior the republicans cannot abide, even though trump threatens people every single day

nothing that matters, he said some mean things about Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, the GOP clutched their pearls, Schumer offered a half-hearted "apology" - nobody outside the beltway will even hear about this, and those inside the beltway won't gaf in, oh 12 hours.

oh, and then he apologized, which makes sense but in 2020 is unforgivable

oh that! I read about it yesterday.

IIRC, he got a bit animated talking to abortion rights protestors on Monday. Something like:

Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh! Hark! Hark, Triton. Hark! Bellow, bid our father, the sea king, rise from the depths, full foul in his fury, black waves teeming with salt-foam, to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge, and brine, and can scream no more. Only when, he, crowned in cockle shells, with slithering tentacled tail, and steaming beard, takes up his fell, be-finnèd arm, his coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest, and plunges right through your gullet, bursting ye, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now, a nothing for the Harpies, and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon, only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the dread emperor himself. Forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god, or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff, or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your souls, is Gorsuch and Kavanaugh no more, but is now itself the sea.

Schumer apologizing now validates the idea that he was encouraging violence against justices, what a fuckin joke.

and I knew he was gonna do it but hoped that just maybe he'd just ignore it or at least say "come the fuck on, you know what I meant you disingenuous asshole" in nice words.

Schumer's an awful leader and worse politician

the silver lining is I didn't expect much from him on this so

yeah. fuck harry reid for passing the torch to him

I’m not sure who else he coulda given it to, unfortunately. He does tend to keep his caucus together at least