The long, hot summer has brought some crystallization to the 2020 U.S. Senate race.

This seat was held by Jeff Sessions for almost two decades but he unwittingly made a strange and probably very regrettable decision to join President Donald Trump’s administration as attorney general. Very few U.S. Senators with 20 years of seniority would leave their permanent seats in the illustrious, powerful and elite senate for a temporary four-year (at best) tenure in a tumultuous and transient cabinet post.  

Steve Flowers served 16 years in the legislature and can be reached at www.steveflowers.us.