MONTGOMERY, Ala. – U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions in recent days rolled through Iowa, Nevada and the panhandle of Florida to stump for Republican Donald Trump.
The first U.S. senator to endorse the outsider candidate turned Republican nominee has emerged as a key surrogate deployed to battleground states in the waning hours of the campaign.
“This is a movement. Look at what is happening. The American people are not happy with their government,” Sessions said as he first endorsed Trump in February.
Sessions’ role in the inner orbit of the Republican nominee has led to speculation of an eventual presidential appointment if Trump should manage to close the polling gap and prove victorious Tuesday.
While Sessions, 69, has downplayed the prospect, his close association with the Republican nominee has raised the national profile of the junior senator from Alabama.