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Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell floated Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a replacement for Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate accused of sexual misconduct and assault of teenagers when he was in his 30s.
McConnell brought up the idea Tuesday night at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council's annual meeting in Washington, proposing Sessions as a write-in candidate to take back his old Senate seat. He cited Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, as a successful example of a write-in campaign.
"It appears as if the only option would be a write-in and that's very seldom successful, although we've had an example of it in 2010. Lisa Murkowski from Alaska lost the primary, ran a write-in campaign in the general election and actually won," he said.
Like Murkowski, McConnell said Sessions is popular enough in his home state to defeat Moore.
"So, why did she win? She was totally well-known and extremely popular. And the name being the most often discussed may not be available, but the Alabamian who would fit that standard would be the attorney general, who is totally well-known and extremely popular in Alabama," he said.
Moore has made no public indication he plans to leave the race, so a push for a write-in candidacy threatens to split the GOP ticket. Sessions also hasn't displayed any public interest in returning to the Senate.
But the longshot path to a Sessions victory would serve two purposes for the GOP: the party would retain the seat, and Sessions would leave the Department of Justice after months of public criticism by President Donald Trump over his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation and not prosecute Trump's political enemies.
Turtle is so worried! The GOP is either supporting a perverted predator or some idiotic scheme to find an attorney general who is willing to get rid of Mueller before more Trump officials get indicted.
It would be so sweet to elect a good civil rights lawyer to take that red state Senate seat and then watch their house of cards come crumbling down as Mueller locks them up.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,137 posts)kill women in back alleys.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Alabama senator lied during confirmation to atty general but got it anyway.
AG recuses himself from the main reason that he was given the role to begin with.
Party cannot get their favorite candidate to win the primary to replace.
Party gets dirt on candidate and then tries to push him out.
The only plausible way they don't lose a seat is to recommend a write in of the guy who had the job to begin with.
Then imagine the Dems tried this pretzel maneuver to replace one of their own and get one single bill passed.
What a horrible party the GOP is.
global1
(25,296 posts)to Congressional Committee's in place of a pedophile. Some choice.
I guess McConnell is ok with Senators that lie.
fierywoman
(7,706 posts)doesn't this split the R vote, giving Doug more of a chance to win?