Roy Moore and Doug Jones Are Vying for Jeff Sessions’ Former Senate Seat So Why Won’t Sessions Say Who He Voted For?

‘I Value the Sanctity of the Ballot’ Sessions Says

Frequently lawmakers and elected officials endorse the person they wish to carry on their legacy or take their office in the next direction. President Barack Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton. More recently, just last week embattled Congressman John Conyers resigned and endorsed his (disgraced) son to take his seat. 

It’s Election Day for Alabama voters, with Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones on the ballot to fill the open Senate seat that was once held for two decades by Jeff Sessions, now President Trump’s Attorney General.

President Trump has fully endorsed Moore, a Christian extremist and former Supreme Court Chief Justice twice-removed for not following federal law. Moore stands accused of child molestation, sexual assault, and aggressively pursuing teenaged girls.

So who did Attorney General Sessions endorse?

No one, which may be in deference to the Hatch Act.

Who did he vote for?

Sessions refuses to say.

“I voted absentee,” Sessions told reporters Tuesday. “I value the sanctity of the ballot. The people of Alabama are good and decent, they’ll make right decision. I’ve been proud to serve for 20 years in the Senate and they’ll make the right decision, I’m sure.“

The Hill notes “Sessions, an early supporter and adviser of President Trump‘s 2016 campaign, would be breaking with his boss if he backed Jones.”

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