
Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is leaving the Senate as he embarks on a quest to become the next governor of the state.
The senator made his announcement official on Tuesday evening when he appeared on Fox News and spoke to host Will Cain.
โAs you know, I coached, and it was a great time. We made some great friends. Itโs been a lot of fun,โ the senator, who had a successful career at Auburn University as a football coach, said.
โSo a fewย years ago, I decided to give back to this great country and fight. Presidentย Trump was a guy that really was behind me in doing the Senate race. Heโs beenย behind me ever since and today I will announce that I will be the future governor of the great state of Alabama,โ Tuberville said.
โIโm doing this to help this country and the great state of Alabama,โ the senator said. โIโm a football coach. Iโm a leader. Iโm a builder. Iโm a recruiter, and weโre going to grow Alabama.โ
โWeโre going to bring manufacturing to this state. Weโre going to stop this illegal immigration. Weโre going to make education better again, and weโre going to do everything possible to make sure our kidsโฆ stay in this state and work,โ he said.
The senator has been endorsed by President Donald Trump to succeed the term-limited Republican Governor Kay Ivey.
Alabama Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth announced last week that he would not seek the position which all but assures that Tuberville will be the next governor of the deep red state.
The last Democrat to hold the position of governor was former Gov. Don Siegelman who served one term from January 18, 1999, to January 20, 2003.
Since then, the governorship has remained in Republican control with Govs. Bob Riley, Robert Bentley and Ivery each serving two terms.
The senator said that while he prepares to campaign for governor, he still has work ahead of him in the Senate, like passing President Trumpโs โBig Beautiful Bill.โ
But House Speaker Mike Johnson is warning that a handful of Senate Republicans may โtankโ President Donald Trumpโs โBig Beautiful Billโ by stripping out key measures from the bill that are directly important to the presidentโs agenda.
During an interview on CBS Newsโ โFace The Nation,โ Johnson also warned that the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate may take out the measure in the House-passed bill that restricts activist judges from issuing nationwide injunctions on every single case.
โBefore I let you go, I want to ask you about another provision that was tucked into this bill. Democrats say it is weakening separation of powers and punishing the courts. Itโs a specific provision that would restrict a federal courtโs power to enforce injunctions with contempt, unless there was a bond attached to it. Sounds really weedy, but itโs causing a lot of outcry. If this might get stripped out in the Senate anyway, why did you bother to stick it in?โ Brennan asked.
โWell, we bothered to stick it in because thatโs our responsibility in Congress. It is about separation of powers. And, right now, you have activist judges, a handful of them around the country, who are abusing that power. Theyโre issuing these nationwide injunctions. Theyโre โ theyโre engaging in political acts from the bench. And that is not what our system is intended for. And people have lost their โ their โ their faith in our system of justice. We have to restore it. And bringing about a simple reform like that is something that I think everybody should applaud,โ Johnson responded.
Later in the interview, Johnson slammed a false talking point from liberals that the โBig Beautiful Billโ will take away Medicaid from people.
โWe have not cut Medicaid, and we have not cut SNAP. What weโre doing, Margaret, is working on fraud, waste, and abuse,โ he said.
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