Look, Tuberville seems like a fine person with credentials that would recommend him for an entry into politics. His football coaching career was distinguished. He's quite involved with his church and has contributed time and other resources to charitable causes.
So the argument could be made that Trump, in weighing all the considerations, concluded that a fresh face on the scene was the way for the GOP to proceed.
Still, when one considers that Sessions was the first Senator to come out forthrightly and full-throatedly for Trump and, as Noah Rothman puts it, "[give] Trump establishment credibility when no one else in the party would," and how Sessions's first television ads in his campaign to regain his former Senate seat was a shameless shill (including the donning of a MAGA cap), even after he'd been humiliated repeatedly by the VSG, it points up how one little lapse in loyalty, in Sessions's case, recusing himself from the Justice Department's investigation of the 2016 campaign, saying, "I should not be investigating a campaign I had a role in," can sever the bond between sycophant and narcissist.
I obviously can't say for sure, but it seems to me that doling out punishment for insufficient ring-kissing had to be a factor, Tuberville's qualifications notwithstanding.
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