Senator Jeff Sessions, republican and junior senator from Alabama, announced today that he would be endorsing Donald Trump for president. 

“I am thrilled today to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President,” Sessions said in a release. “This election is our last chance to save U.S. sovereignty and to end the domination of the political establishment over the interests of working Americans. Trump alone has rejected the donor class, defending America’s jobs and wages from open borders, uncontrolled immigration and the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership that will cede U.S. authority to foreign powers. Trump’s trade and immigration plans will revitalize our shrinking middle class, keeping jobs and wealth and income inside the United States of America. Trump understands that a nation must always place the interests of its own people first.

Sessions joins New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, former Georgia running back Herschel Walker and David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, in recently voicing public support for Trump’s campaign. 

“Americans of all backgrounds and ethnicities, immigrant and US-born, are crying out for leadership that puts their needs first, that takes care of those living and dreaming here today, leadership that understands that there is no constituency other than the American constituency,” Sessions said. “Mr. Trump is that leader.