Trump's Attacks on Sessions Are Angering His Base in Deep-Red Alabama
- Sessions won 97 percent of the vote when he last ran in 2014
- ‘A very rude way to pay back loyalties, and people see that’
Sessions Survives Another Day as GOP Support Grows
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The poor, black and Democratic neighborhoods of Alabama’s North Birmingham didn’t vote for President Donald Trump, who has spent the past two weeks disparaging and Twitter-torturing Jeff Sessions, the attorney general and former U.S. Senator from their state.
They’ve been enjoying the spectacle, though, as Trump strikes at the heart of his Southern support. Known for his strong constituent services, Sessions’s popularity is high among the white Alabamians who handed the state to Trump in November.