On the 8th installment of the “Grand Old Podcast,” hosted by Alabama Republican Party Chairman Scott Stadthagen, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said the left is marching on the South and Alabama’s state government is where he intends to stop it.
“We’re not going to be able to stop it from the federal government, but we can damn sure stop it in state government,” Tuberville said.
The Republican nominee for governor sat down with Stadthagen at Southfork Ranch outside Dallas, Texas, a state where Tuberville coached at Texas A&M and Texas Tech. “I’ve got my cowboy hat here, and got my boots on, and acting like a cowboy,” he said.
Tuberville won the Republican nomination in May with 85.1% of the vote. He faces Democrat Doug Jones, whom he beat 60.1% to 39.9% in the 2020 U.S. Senate race, in the Nov. 3 general election.
Stadthagen opened by asking what pulled him out of coaching and into politics.
“Well, I saw we were in trouble. You know, I’m a huge American. I love this country,” Tuberville said. “My dad died on active duty. He landed at Normandy at age 17. He drove a tank across Europe. Was awarded five Bronze Stars and Purple Heart, and loved the country.”
Tuberville said he prayed over whether to seek a second Senate term and decided the fight is at home.
“I’ve enjoyed representing the people of Alabama up there, and I would have done it again … I looked at it. I thought about it. Prayed about it,” he said. “If I go back, we can kind of put a wall up around God and country in Alabama if we all get together and do the right things. Because I tell you, everything’s closing in on the South.”
“They can’t get it unless they take the South,” he said. “And if we fight back hard enough, then we can make inroads of making sure it spreads back out into the greatest country ever.”
Tuberville said he has put five bills on the Senate floor to keep men out of women’s sports and has never gotten a single Democrat vote.
“I’ve asked several Democrats: Do you have a granddaughter? Do you have a daughter? Have you lost your mind that you voted against this?” he said. “Do you want your kids, your grandkids, girls dressing and taking showers with men? Have you lost your ever loving mind? They can’t answer you.”
He also revisited his 2023 hold on military promotions over the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy.
“I had the longest hold on any bill in United States Senate in history of the country, and that was because of abortion in the military,” Tuberville said. “So I blocked all promotions for nine months, and I’m going to tell you, I had death threats. People came after me, and I’m not talking about just Democrats now. I’m talking about weak-kneed Republicans did the same thing.”
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Stadthagen asked whether he should call him coach or governor after November. Tuberville’s answer: “probably be coach.”
On Jones, Tuberville said the former senator stayed in Washington after losing in 2020.
“He never went home after I beat him,” he said. “He worked for a law firm in D.C. and so stayed up there, and has been up there, and probably if he wanted to run for governor, he should have come home, because he hadn’t been doing anything other than making a living up there off of the far-left Democrats, being a lawyer.”
“We need everybody to go vote if I’m going to win this,” Tuberville said. “[If] we don’t go vote, then we’re going to end up with somebody in there that doesn’t believe in the principle, because he voted every time with Pelosi and Schumer. Every time. Every time.”
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