U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) promised three Alabama cities in his newest campaign ad a governor who will send in the National Guard “on day one.”
“Montgomery, it’s a war zone. Mobile, Birmingham, dangerous,” Tuberville says in the ad. “These criminals will pay the price for hurting our cities.”
Tuberville, the Republican nominee for Governor of Alabama, then tells voters what he plans to do about it.
“As your governor, I’ll personally recruit a new generation of law enforcement officers, institute the nation’s harshest penalties for child abusers, bring accountability to judges and district attorneys, and don’t think I won’t send in the National Guard on day one,” Tuberville says. “I’m Tommy Tuberville, and I’m going to make sure Alabama’s communities are safe.”
Tuberville’s campaign is spending big behind the ad, sending his three latest ads to television, cable and digital screens across the state.
On YouTube alone, the campaign’s first ad, “Bumper Sticker,” now clocks over 7.7 million views.
Montgomery keeps making the case for him. Ten people were shot in the capital city over Labor Day weekend, one of them fatally, in five separate shootings. Montgomery Police Chief Jim Graboys said five of the nine survivors refused to cooperate with investigators.
Last October, a downtown shootout killed two people and wounded 12. One of the suspects was released on bond, and Tuberville called the capital a “WAR ZONE.” Judges and district attorneys are now in his ad.
Tuberville has promised the Guard for more than a year. Asked in 2025 whether he would deploy troops to Alabama cities overrun by violent crime, he did not hedge.
“A lot of that goes on in our state of Alabama, and if it takes the National Guard, you betcha,” Tuberville said.
In January, on WVNN’s “The Dale Jackson Show,” he was asked whether the plan still stood.
“100% Dale, they’ve had two shootings the last two nights,” Tuberville said. “They had somebody killed the night before and four people shot two nights ago. It’s a war zone, and what’s going on there?”
Democrats heard the same promise and tried to raise money off it. A political action committee tied to Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed sent a fundraising text accusing Tuberville of threatening to “sic the national guard on Montgomery.”
Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat Tuberville ran out of the U.S. Senate in 2020 and faces again on November 3, mocked the Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., saying soldiers “did a fabulous job of planting flowers” and “had no effect on the drop in crime.”
“The Democrats are pro crime for some reason, and we’ve got to stop this nonsense,” Tuberville said in January.
The ad’s pledge on child abusers builds on a law Governor Kay Ivey signed on February 12.
The Child Predator Death Penalty Act takes effect October 1 and makes first-degree rape, sodomy and sexual torture of a child under 12 punishable by death.
Tuberville says his administration will “institute the nation’s harshest penalties for child abusers.”
The general election is November 3.
Grayson Everett is the editor in chief of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270.
