Article snippet: Former Attorney General MORE is expected to announce plans to run for his former Senate seat on Thursday, multiple sources told The Hill. A source familiar with Sessions’s plans said that the former Alabama senator “will come out forcefully in support of [President] Trump’s agenda while denouncing Democrats’ impeachment efforts. And steps have already begun to hire campaign staff.” Three sources familiar with the plans said the announcement would be made Thursday, with multiple sources saying it would be made during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday evening. The deadline to file for the Senate race is Friday. Sessions has hired OnMessage as his consulting firm for the campaign, according to two sources. OnMessage did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Rick Dearborn, a former top aide to Sessions, declined to comment on whether his former boss would announce a bid in the coming days. Jumping into the Alabama race would put a national focus on Sessions’s rocky relationship with Trump. Sessions held the Senate seat from 1997 until 2017, when he was tapped to serve as Trump’s first attorney general. But he quickly fell out of favor with the president after recusing himself from oversight of the Russia probe, eventually leaving the administration in November 2018, a day after the midterm elections, at Trump’s request. Despite his turbulent relationship with Trump, Sessions has remained popular in Alabama, a state Trump won with 62 percent of the vot... Link to the full article to read more