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Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is showcasing his fundraising prowess arsenic helium launches his bid for Alabama governor.
Tuberville's gubernatorial run connected Thursday announced that it raked successful $2,064,723 successful fundraising during the archetypal 24 hours aft the legislator declared his candidacy, "far surpassing its archetypal extremity and shattering the erstwhile Alabama record."
The senator, a beardown protagonist and state of President Donald Trump, is considered the frontrunner successful the 2026 contention to win term-limited GOP Gov. Kay Ivey successful the Republican-dominated state.
"There are 2 universal truths successful the Yellowhammer authorities close now: Alabamians emotion President Trump and they privation Coach Tuberville to beryllium their adjacent governor," Jackie Curtiss Cox, fundraiser for Tuberville's campaign, said. "I’ve ne'er seen momentum similar this successful my much than 10 years successful Alabama politics."
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who connected Tuesday announced a 2026 bid for Alabama governor, arrives for a Senate Republican Caucus luncheon astatine the Capitol successful Washington, DC connected Apr. 2, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
And Cox spotlighted that "these were not from PAC donations — each dollar came from tiny concern owners, entrepreneurs, workers, and retirees."
This week's announcement from Tuberville, a erstwhile longtime assemblage shot manager who spent 10 years arsenic caput manager astatine Auburn University successful Alabama, ended months of speculation astir his ambitions to tally for politician successful his location state.
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Tuberville, launched a run website that touts his "conservative Alabama values."
And successful his archetypal interrogation aft launching his campaign, Tuberville said connected Fox News' "The Will Cain Show" that "I'm doing this to assistance this state and the large authorities of Alabama. I'm a shot coach. I'm a leader. I'm a builder. I'm a recruiter, and we're going to turn Alabama."
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A root acquainted told Fox News a mates of weeks agone that an endorsement from Trump would beryllium a "done deal" if Tuberville decided to tally for governor.
And Tuberville, successful his Fox News interview, said Trump was "fully supportive" of his gubernatorial run.
Then-GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump waves arsenic helium attends an Alabama Crimson Tide-Georgia Bulldogs assemblage shot crippled connected Sept. 28, 2024, astatine the University of Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium. GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is seen lasting connected the right. (John David Mercer-Imagn Images)
He is besides backed by the politically influential and deep-pocketed Club for Growth, a fiscal blimpish radical that takes sides successful GOP primaries.
Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth, who had been expected to tally to win Ivey, past week announced that helium would not question the office.
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Tuberville was archetypal elected to the Senate successful 2020, moving arsenic an outsider who was intimately aligned with Trump.
In the Republican primary, helium topped erstwhile Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime legislator from Alabama, earlier resigning successful 2017 to service arsenic Trump's lawyer general. Tuberville went connected to decision incumbent Sen. Doug Jones, who was the archetypal Democrat elected to the Senate successful Alabama successful decades.
Tuberville's determination to tally for politician sets up an unfastened Senate spot in Alabama successful adjacent year's midterm elections.
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