WE Senator Tommy Tuberville On Tuesday, launched a website to campaign for the governor of Alabama in 2026, finishing months of speculation on his political future.
“Like President Trump, I will continue to protect common sense and defend our conservative values common in Montgomery”, ” The site – the Tuberville coach for the governor’s states.
Tuberville said for months that he was considering a race for the governor instead of seeking a second term in the Senate.
Tuberville made the official news of “The Will Cain Show” on Fox News Broadcast live from Auburn on Tuesday.
“Today, I will announce that I will be the future governor of the great state of Alabama,” Tuberville told Cain.
No republican candidate has announced For the primary of next year, which is May 19, 2026.
If it is elected, Tuberville will succeed Gov. Kay Iveywho will have been governor a few months under a decade at the end of his mandate in January 2027.
Any Republican who decides to challenge Tuberville will probably find it difficult to beat the first mandate, according to political experts.
LT. Gov. Will AinsworthFormerly considered an imitrunner, announced last week that he will not run the governor.
The commissioner of agriculture Rick Pate, he would not present himself to the post of governor when he learned that Tuberville was likely to run, saying Only Nick Saban could beat Tuberville.
With Tuberville running for the governor Its headquarters in the Senate will also be A race opened in 2026.
As governor, Tuberville says that he plans to fight against “awakened ideology” and bring back more manufacturing jobs in Alabama.
His website indicates that he will also work with Trump to combat illegal immigration.
“Alabamians should not have to worry that illegal foreigners take their jobs, fly their advantages and break the law. As governor, I will support blue, apply the law and work with President Trump to expel illegal extraterrestrial criminals. ”
From coach to senator
Tuberville, 70, and his wife Suzanne have two adult sons, Tucker and Troy.
Before entering politics, he was Football coach in Auburn from 1999 to 2008.
Tuberville compiled a record of 159-99 in 21 seasons as a chief coach, including 14 in the dry.
He guided the tigers to a record of 85-40 out of 10 seasons. Auburn went 13-0 under Tuberville in 2004, including a 38-28 victory over Tennessee during the dry championship match.
Tuberville led a field of seven candidates in the primary of the Republican Senate 2020.
After picking up a approval of President Donald Trump, Tuberville decisively defeated Jeff Sessions In the runoff of the GOP, receiving 61% of the votes.
Sessions was trying to return to the seat he occupied for 20 years before leaving him to accept the appointment of Trump as a attorney general before a naughty fell.
Tuberville then Easily defeated democratic Doug Jones in the general elections of November 2020.
Since his elections, Tuberville has been one of Trump’s fiercest.
Devotion to Trump has become essential to succeed in GOP campaigns in Alabama, said Brown.
“We have seen all the candidates for major functions, almost all, having to go out and declare themselves as faithful Trumpians,” said Jess Brown, former political science teacher at the Athens State University and long -standing observer of the elections.
“And I do not see anyone who will be able to present themselves in a republican primary for the governor who will be able to have a record to be more Trumpian than Senator Tuberville.”
Challenges to come?
Despite his support for Trump, Tuberville sometimes opposed his own party and found himself at the center of national controversies.
He Military promotions blocked for 10 months in 2023 On a Pentagon policy covering travel costs for the military and their dependents which must cross state lines to receive abortions.
The government’s responsibility office recently I found that taking some families of soldiers But did not create risk for national security or military preparation.
In 2022, while speaking during a Trump rally in Nevada, Tuberville said Democrats “want reparation because they think the people That makes the crime.
Tuberville said later via a spokesperson He meant that “the problem is the crime, not the race, but the liberal media intends to help the Democrats to stay in power.”
The questions were raised on Tuberville actions transactions while in the American Senate.
Tuberville negotiates more than his 99 colleagues in the Senate. It is according to Unusual whalesA startup that helps investors follow market activity. It also follows only a small number of members of the house.
And the time of some of its trades and assets of certain agricultural products and foreign stocks raised questions and triggered the headlines.
For example, financial trade publications have called Tuberville de Tuberville apple stock market trade Before a slowdown in the market for technology in early April.
There are also questions whether Tuberville answers the seven -year residence requirement to be governor.
Al.com reported in April Whether Tuberville and his wife still have two houses in Santa Rosa, including a beach house worth more than $ 5 million. The senator asks for a family property exemption from a house in Auburn.
Brown said republican voters in the Governor’s race will probably not care.
Even if there is a legal challenge, Brown said that the Supreme Alabama Court – Nine Republican judges – would have the last word.
“I think it will be difficult to keep it out of the ballot with the question of the residence,” said Brown.
And if his name is on the ballot, Tuberville will probably be unbeatable, the experts say.
“Even if it’s a year, I can’t see a major opponent for him in the republican primary,” said former president of the Gop and senator from the State, Bill Armistead.
“Certainly not in the general elections.”
This is a story in development and will be updated because more information is available.
