ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In early November, President Trump announced he would be traveling to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to attend the University of Alabama-Louisiana State University football game. When Representative Bradley Byrne, a three-term congressman and United States Senate candidate from Mobile, learned of this plan, he immediately called an Alabama booster named Jim Wilson, who would be hosting Trump in his luxury box near midfield at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Wilson, as fortune would have it, is a distant relative, friend and financial supporter of Byrne’s, and Byrne thought perhaps he could get him into the box…Byrne, who came to Washington with a reputation as a Chamber of Commerce Republican, was not always so eager to be associated with Trump.”
–Jason Zengerle, “How Alabama’s Senate Primary Became a Trump Loyalty Contest,” The New York Times online, February 10, 2020