Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed confidence in Alabamians' judgment, but he didn't say what outcome he favored. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Sessions doesn’t say how he voted in Alabama Senate contest

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday he's cast a ballot in the Alabama race to fill the U.S. Senate seat he vacated, but he would not say whether he backed controversial GOP nominee Roy Moore, Democrat Doug Jones or someone else.

"I voted absentee, yes, and I value the sanctity of the ballot," Sessions said during a visit to Baltimore with new Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to highlight the threat posed by the MS-13 gang.


At a press conference at the U.S. attorney's office, the attorney general expressed confidence in Alabamians' judgment, but he didn't say what outcome he favored.

"I would say the people of Alabama are good and decent, wonderful people. I was proud to serve them in the Senate," Sessions said. "They’ll make the right decision."

Multiple women have accused Moore, a socially conservative former Alabama Supreme Court justice, of seeking relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. One woman said that she was 14 when Moore attempted to initiate a sexual encounter.

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Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last month, Sessions suggested that he viewed the stories as credible.

"I have no reason to doubt these young women," he said.

The reports about Moore led some White House officials and prominent Republicans to toy briefly with the idea of promoting Sessions as a write-in candidate to return to the Senate. However, Sessions' allies made clear that he had no interest in giving up his job running the Justice Department.

