Barry Moore entering U.S. Senate race as ‘assignment’ from Alabama voters

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August 15, 2025

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, leaning on a Wiregrass upbringing, faith in God, business grit, years of service in Congress, and a decade of high-profile loyalty to President Donald Trump.

Later today, he’ll kick off his campaign at an event across the state from his district, in Sylvania, his wife Heather’s hometown.

Moore told Yellowhammer News in an interview this week that he’s launching a 67-county push that sells his record – “not promises.”

Alabama needs an unmistakably pro-Trump vote in the upper chamber as border security, federal spending, American manufacturing, and individual liberties are at public policy crossroads, Moore says.

“Because of President Trump being willing to go through what he went through, we had to stand with him. And we’ve been standing with him for 10 years,” Moore said, “We’re not some weathervane politician. We are doing what we believe we’re called to do, and a sense of trying to restore your liberty and protect your freedoms.”

Moore grew up in Enterprise and still lives on the family farm with his wife of 33 years.

The community near Fort Rucker, he said, gave him a small-town life with a global understanding: helicopter pilots training from around the world.

Moore served six years in the Alabama Army National Guard and was attached to a medevac unit during the Desert Storm era. Moore, whose brother is a retired Marine/FA-18 pilot and whose son-in-law served as an Army Ranger, said that background is only a small part of his career-long motivation to serve veterans.

He recalled a Vietnam veteran who stopped him in a restaurant to say his office had secured long-delayed hearing aids within two weeks.

“There are probably, honestly, a thousand of those stories,” Moore said.

“There needs to be no question in anybody’s mind that if President Trump’s leading, Alabama’s Senator needs to be with him,” Moore said. “This isn’t ambition – it’s an assignment.”

In part, Moore helped build his political brand on a small-business in waste hauling — ultimately, garbage trucks. He and his wife founded Barry Moore Industries in Enterprise, a company that offers roll-off dumpster service, demolition and site services across southeast Alabama.

“We came back, started a garbage company, Heather and I did. So, I started driving the old garbage truck. I still got my CDL, so I started. I get up about 3:00am in the morning, run the route and go out and sell accounts during the day. And so we’re 24 years in that – general contractor, probably 22 years of that. And so we just kind of grew this waste hauling business,” Moore said in the interview.

On the 2024 general election day, Moore arrived to vote in a garbage truck – an episode he recalled with a chuckle: “we just got that truck in. It was a brand new roll off truck.” He later leaned into the theme with a viral “D.C. Garbage” ad that won a Telly Award.

“I tell everybody, I’ve been in the garbage business, but the transition to politics is pretty easy,” he said. “You really, literally have so much stuff… and you just kind of have to sort through what’s really good,” Moore said.

In 2015 at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Moore was the first elected official to take the stage to endorse then-candidate Donald Trump at one of the first rallies he ever held.

“As we’re going through the tunnel towards the stage, [a fellow speaker] says, ‘Man, you want to go first, or you want to go last?’ I said, ‘Well, first,’” Moore recalled. “So I became the first elected official in the nation to endorse a guy from New York City who had no chance of winning,” Moore said.

Of then-U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions’s appearance that night, Moore said, “Sessions didn’t endorse that day. He came up later that day on the stage and talked about the border and he wore the hat. But he didn’t endorse until a few months later.”

But one year prior, Moore caught fire in a 2014 legal battle he describes as a politically motivated “perjury trap.”

Moore’s political trajectory was reshaped in 2014, when a Lee County special grand jury indicted him on two counts of first-degree perjury and two counts of making false statements during the attorney general’s corruption probe tied to then-House Speaker Mike Hubbard.

He says attorneys urged him to “cut a deal,” but he refused, adopting a family motto – “We’re going to win the case and we’re going to win the race.” A jury later acquitted him.

Moore calls the episode his “refiner’s fire” and the moment he decided to judge the system by how it treats outsiders.

If elected in November 2026 and sworn in January 2027, Moore would fill the seat now held by U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville, who is running for governor – with the GOP primary set for May 19, 2026.

With just two years left of Trump’s second presidency, Moore said the Senate should “build on what [Trump] starts,” naming border security, great-power deterrence and a manufacturing-first economy as durable priorities.

“He will not be able to see all the fruits of his labor… but your kids, your grandkids… will see America move continually into the golden age if we’ll pursue what he’s doing.”

Moore also previewed how he’ll run across 67 counties: fewer door knocks, more high-density events and local media saturation, with his wife Heather, a frequent surrogate in past races, expected to play a visible role again.

“We’ve always been an incredible grassroots team,” he said, confident that will remain true throughout the 2026 campaign.

Asked directly whether he is the most conservative candidate currently in the field, Moore said he’s been the most conservative lawmaker everywhere he has served.

“I think if you look at my record, I’m probably the most conservative members in the entire U.S. Congress. And I think if you look at when I was the Alabama House of Reps, I was always number one, even with the 35 senators and 105 House members – I was one or two,” he said.

“I just don’t know any other way than who I am, and so it’s just who we are.”

In the time since the interview with Yellowhammer News, Moore has also publicly said he is the only candidate in the race who is not a Democrat.

Grayson Everett is the editor and chief of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270.