Just how dire does Alabama’s July 14 GOP primary look for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions? His new poll from OnMessage Inc. shows Sessions trailing former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville 49-43. Back in mid-March, OnMessage found Sessions tied with Tuberville 45-45 in the contest to reclaim his old Senate seat from Democratic incumbent Doug Jones: Trump endorsed Tuberville soon after that survey was finished.
As bad as these new results are for Sessions, they’re not nearly as bad as what another Republican pollster, Cygnal, found in mid-May. That survey, which was not done for any client, gave Tuberville a wide 55-32 lead just days before Trump declared that Sessions was not “mentally qualified” to be attorney general.
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