Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will cruise to re-election on Tuesday as the only U.S. Senator on the ballot in 2014 who did not face a General Election opponent, and according to Daily Caller Editor-In-Chief and Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, the reason is simple.
“Jeff Sessions is so popular he could come to work in a dress and still be running unopposed,” Carlson said on the Laura Ingraham Show. “He is the most popular person in Alabama except for maybe Nick Saban, and it’s all earned, in my opinion.”
Carlson said Republicans across the country should take note of the success of Sessions’ populist message, which tends to be aimed at working-class Americans, rather than the wealthy elite, whom Sessions refers to as the “Masters of the Universe.”
“We’re in a moment of economic populism,” Carlson said. “People who make under $300,000 a year have seen their actual earning power decline in the last decade — if not the last 40 years — and they’re upset about it and that is not the message that your average Republican donor or the people who run the RNC were quick to figure out, they just, I don’t know, somehow lost that.”
“I think there are two things going on,” he continued. “One is demographic change. It’s just a different population in America from what we grew up with, just different voters. And the truth is, non-white voters don’t vote Republican. Maybe they will at some point, but they don’t now, partly because the Democratic Party is always telling them, ‘Vote Republican and you’ll get lynched,’ whipping up racial fears — that’s part of the reason.
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“And the other reason Republicans haven’t swept far, far ahead as they should, is because they haven’t appealed to working voters, middle class voters. The Democrat Party is a coalition of the rich and the poor, and so Republicans you would think would make a play for everyone else, but in some cases they really haven’t, and that explains the lack of enthusiasm I think.”
(h/t Breitbart)
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