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The current top contenders for Jeff Sessions' U.S. Senate seat seem hell-bent on out-Trumping their opponents. Just for fun, in the cartoon above I took the liberty of giving three of them a Trump make-over.

Sen. Luther Strange, the candidate voted most unlikely to get away with posing as a political outsider, is spending the most time and money on Trumping up his campaign. Strange is the incumbent via his conspicuously tainted appointment by former Gov. Robert "Luv Guv" Bentley.

The former Washington lobbyist is the heavy establishment favorite, and he's got tons of national GOP elitist money to prove it.

"President Trump is the greatest thing that's happened to this country," said Strange, obviously forgetting about the Pilgrims and Pop Tarts. "I consider it a Biblical miracle that he's there."

Strange's ubiquitous campaign ads are loaded with alternative facts, embellishments and complete falsehoods - including fake headlines from fake newspapers. Big Luther is growing like a Trump weed.

Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, who was against Trump before finding his inner Trumpness, is threatening to shut down the government if the U.S. Senate doesn't fund President Trump's border wall.

Brooks, a brave soldier in the "war on whites," has vowed to filibuster by reading the King James Bible to Congress until the wall gets built.

Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is also Trumpish on immigration.

"President Trump has every right to take every step he sees fit to restrict illegal immigration, and I will support him every step of the way - whether it be through a border wall or any other policy - to solve this vital national security issue," Moore said in a video on his Facebook page.

Most of the Republican candidates say they support Trump's border wall, but only one has faith in the president's proposed method for funding it.

Dom Gentile, a Birmingham businessman says, "The president promised that he'll get Mexico to pay for the wall. My position is that he needs to live up to the promise."

Who do you think is the most Trumped-up candidate?

Check out this gallery of all the candidates for U.S. Senate