GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has just received his first endorsement from a US senator, just days after he scored three endorsements from the governors of New Jersey, Nevada, and Maine.
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions endorsed Trump, citing his conservative immigration policy. Sessions has long been an ardent opponent of illegal immigration, and has been touted by Trump’s opponent Ted Cruz as a stalwart conservative.
This is the first time Sessions has endorsed a president candidate, wanting to break away from the pattern where “for 30 years, politicians have promised to fix illegal immigration,” Bloomberg reports.
At a rally with Trump in Huntsville, Alabama, Sessions says he told Trump: “This isn’t a campaign. This is a movement.”
The GOP senator says “nobody’s perfect,” but that “at this time in American history, we need to make America great again.” He was repeating a Trump slogan.
Sessions had appeared with Trump last August at a rally in Mobile, Alabama.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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