Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who on Tuesday announced a 2026 bid for Alabama governor, arrives for a Senate Republican Caucus luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, DC on Apr. 2, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
And Cox spotlighted that "these were not from PAC donations — every dollar came from small business owners, entrepreneurs, workers, and retirees."
This week's announcement from Tuberville, a former longtime college football coach who spent 10 years as head coach at Auburn University in Alabama, ended months of speculation about his ambitions to run for governor in his home state.
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Tuberville, launched a campaign website that touts his "conservative Alabama values."
Then-GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump waves as he attends an Alabama Crimson Tide-Georgia Bulldogs college football game on Sept. 28, 2024, at the University of Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium. GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is seen standing on the right. (John David Mercer-Imagn Images)
He is also backed by the politically influential and deep-pocketed Club for Growth, a fiscal conservative group that takes sides in GOP primaries.
Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth, who had been expected to run to succeed Ivey, last week announced that he would not seek the office.
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Tuberville was first elected to the Senate in 2020, running as an outsider who was closely aligned with Trump.
In the Republican primary, he topped former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime senator from Alabama, before resigning in 2017 to serve as Trump's attorney general. Tuberville went on to defeat incumbent Sen. Doug Jones, who was the first Democrat elected to the Senate in Alabama in decades.
Tuberville's move to run for governor sets up an open Senate seat in Alabama in next year's midterm elections.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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