In a statement to Yellowhammer News about the latest 2020 Democratic primary debate held on Thursday night, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested that the “radical socialist” ideas spouted on the debate stage are prime evidence of why Republicans need to win Alabama’s Senate race this election cycle.
Sessions, himself a 2020 candidate for that Senate seat which he once occupied, said, “As moderator Judy Woodruff noted early on in the debate, every Democratic candidate on that stage has proposed raising taxes on Americans. In fact, the Democrats were busy trying to out-do each other in how many taxes they would raise.”
Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), who will face the GOP’s eventual Senate nominee in November 2020, has spoken out against President Donald Trump’s historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and Jones actually voted to undo part of the legislation this year.
Sessions, continuing his statement regarding the debate, advised, “These radical socialistic policies have failed Venezuela, and they’ve been a failure wherever they’ve been tried. America’s economy is booming, and that’s because President Trump has cut taxes, rolled back regulations, negotiated fairer trade deals, and made America energy independent.”
“Three of the seven Democratic presidential candidates on that stage are members of the U.S. Senate,” he added. “Alabama’s Senate seat cannot be held by a foot soldier for the radical left. We must send an effective conservative fighter to the Senate who can help President Trump on day one. It’s time to stand up and fight for what’s right, and I’ll always stand for Alabama values in Washington.”
Of the candidates on the debate stage, Jones has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in the primary, however Jones has pledged to back whomever the Democrats ultimately nominate against Trump, no matter how radical that individual is.
Speaking of Thursday night, Sessions appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” criticizing House Democrats’ actions regarding impeachment and praising Trump for his work on the United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement (USMCA) trade deal that would replace NAFTA.
Tucker Carlson, the show host, reminded the audience that the USMCA was approved by the House on Thursday and asked Sessions if it is a good deal for the United States.
“It’s so much better than NAFTA,” Sessions explained. “And I traveled with President Trump all over this country (on the 2016 campaign trail), and I saw him hammering NAFTA. You remember? He said it was the worst trade deal in history [and that] he can’t believe they negotiated such an abomination. Now, he alone had the courage to take it on. Nobody else was saying that. And he’s pushed [USMCA] through Congress, it’s a great victory for him. He did the right thing for America. It wouldn’t have happened if he had not led.”
The USMCA now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to be overwhelmingly approved on a bipartisan basis.
Sean Ross is the editor of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn
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