Donald Trump endorsed by Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions ahead of Super Tuesday

It’s the first time Sessions, a Republican, has endorsed a presidential candidate, Trump said, adding that that Senator is just the sort of person with whom he wants to work. Shortly after reaching the stage, Trump welcomed Senator Jeff Sessions to the microphone, who then officially announced his endorsement of the candidate.

“At this time in my opinion and my best judgment in American history, we need to make America great again”, Sessions said, echoing Trump’s campaign slogan. “This is a movement”.

That question apparently decided, Sessions’ endorsement of Cruz is a major blow to the Texas Senator whose campaign peaked with a win in Iowa and has suffered since. In the run-up to the March 1 Super Tuesday primary elections, Cruz has tried to undermine Trump’s conservative bona fides on immigration reform, characterizing his plan as “amnesty”. Cruz has touted his strict positions on border security and deportation, leaning on his strident commitment to conservative ideology as a key rationale for his candidacy.

Early this week, chairing a hearing on the impacts of high-skilled immigration on American workers, Sessions during a Congressional hearing had slammed H-1B visas, saying it was having an adverse impact on the jobs market in the US. “Donald Trump will do it”, he said, according to The Washington Post. “We can’t have everything”, he told the crowd here. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Paul LePage of ME on Friday, and of former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Saturday, it’s another sign that many in the Republican Party are beginning to accept that Trump will likely be their nominee.

After Sessions leaves the stage, Trump seems to request that a protester is taken out of his rally.

The senator argued that “the American people have known for years these trade agreements have not been working for them”. The staunch conservative said that “for 30 years, politicians have promised to fix illegal immigration“. And I have more considerably more confidence in Cruz and Marco Rubio when it comes to dealing (or refusing to deal) with Putin, the Palestinians, and other enemies of the USA and Israel.

A black former assistant U.S. Attorney in Alabama named Thomas Figures testified that, during a 1981 murder investigation involving the Ku Klux Klan, Sessions was heard by several colleagues commenting that he “used to think they [the Klan] were OK” until he found out some of them were “pot smokers”. Christie, a significant symbol of the GOP establishment gave Trump his support on 26 February, joining a number of other recent endorsements. And I would say the exact same thing to Nabisco. Chris started grilling light-weight Marco Rubio. “He was sweating. It looked like he just got out of swimming pool with his suit on”.