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Tommy Tuberville
life after roe
Feb. 23, 2024
Tuberville and Republicans Are Tripping All Over the Alabama IVF Decision Many Republicans are abandoning “fetal personhood” doctrines amid backlash to the Alabama ruling. Tuberville and Nikki Haley haven’t been so nimble.
Senate Republicans Are Finally Sick of Tommy Tuberville Several of his Senate colleagues challenged his block on military nominations by forcing a vote Wednesday evening.
the inside game
Aug. 2, 2023
early and often
July 11, 2023
Tommy Tuberville (Eventually) Admits White Nationalists Are Racist Instead of just disassociating himself with white nationalism and changing the subject, the Alabama senator kept digging a deeper hole.
The Marine Corps Is Leaderless Because a Senator Is Mad About Abortion Tommy Tuberville continues to block all Department of Defense nominees over a policy that covers servicemembers’ travel expenses for abortions.
early and often
May 10, 2023
Republicans on Trump-Carroll Verdict: Ask Again Later Pro- and anti-Trump Republicans reacted as you’d expect, but a lot of politicians seemed to be waiting on polling to tell them what to think.
Tommy Tuberville Gives Breathtakingly Ignorant Explanation of Russia’s Invasion The Alabama senator doesn’t seem to be aware that communism ended in the country some time ago.
what reckoning?
Aug. 13, 2021
The Senate Wants to Give Us a Lot More Cops Last year’s so-called reckoning with race is curdling into a bipartisan love fest for the police.
covid-19 vaccine
July 26, 2021
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Deploys Big Lie to Boost Vaccinations The gubernatorial candidate is encouraging Arkansans to get their “Trump vaccine” and blaming the left for sowing distrust of the COVID jab.
covid-19 vaccine
July 21, 2021
What If Republicans Were Anti-Lockdown, Anti-Mask, and Pro-Vaxx? Tommy Tuberville suggests the best way to erode vaccine hesitancy is to give Trump credit for those shots in the arm. That may be sad but true.
2022 midterms
Apr. 12, 2021
Sex, Trump, and Insurrection: Alabama Republicans Are at It Again With Mo Brooks winning Trump’s endorsement and John Merrill imploding in a sex scandal, Alabama’s 2022 Senate primary is off to a fine start.
Richard Shelby, the Last of the South’s Senate Party-Switchers, to Retire The six-term Alabama senator never changed that much but went with the flow of conservative southern politics.
past is prologue
Dec. 29, 2020
The Flimsy Nixon Precedent Trump Is Seizing On to Contest Biden’s Win In 1960, Nixon disregarded a certified Electoral College slate from Hawaii favoring him. This is not the same as Pence disregarding a national defeat.
contested election
Dec. 17, 2020
Will Two Alabama Extremists Force a Vote on Overturning the Election? Mo Brooks and Tommy Tuberville are two peas in a pod from the same right-wing patch and may make every Republican go on record about Trump’s claims.
Incoming GOP Senator Apparently Doesn’t Know Basics of World War II Tommy Tuberville said his father deployed to France to liberate Paris “from socialism and communism,” forgetting perhaps that Nazis were fascist.
The Perpetually Frustrated Dream of the South Turning Blue There remain signs of optimism for long-suffering southern Democrats, but 2020 was in most respects bitterly disappointing.
poll position
Oct. 17, 2020
Two Republicans Could Blow Up Democrats’ Shot at the Senate How the GOP may just pull off flipping seats in states as different as Alabama and Michigan.
college football
Oct. 15, 2020
Nick Saban’s Positive Test Makes COVID-19 Real in the Heart of Trumpland Nobody pays more attention to detail than the legendary Alabama coach. Now college football in the South is as imperiled as COVID-19 denial.
2020 elections
Oct. 14, 2020
We May Have to Wait for Senate Election Results, Too For reasons ranging from slow counts of mail ballots to funky majority-vote requirements, we may not know who controls the Senate until January.
poll position
Oct. 10, 2020
It’s Harder Than it Looks for Democrats to Win the Senate Recent polls show many newly competitive Democratic Senate candidates, but they could still fall short of a majority even if Biden wins.
2020 elections
July 14, 2020
Tuberville Ends Jeff Sessions’s Political Career in Alabama Primary Runoff The former Auburn coach isn’t a cinch against Democratic senator Doug Jones, but he did dramatically reverse Sessions’s once dazzling success.
court is in sessions
June 30, 2020
Jeff Sessions Keeps Getting Worse A new profile at the New York Times Magazine vivifies the warning about Sessions that Coretta Scott King gave in 1986.
2020 elections
June 28, 2020
Biden’s Surge Could Flip the Senate — and Boost His Presidency A rising tide from the top of the ticket may lift Democrats to control of the Senate, which would make a successful Biden administration more likely.
2020 elections
May 20, 2020
Obamagate Could Be the Last Nail in the Coffin for Jeff Sessions A new poll shows him trailing by more than 20 points in the race for his old Alabama Senate seat. The GOP obsession with the “witch hunt” may be why.
2020 elections
Apr. 2, 2020
Trump Campaign Attacks Sessions For Too Much Praise of Trump It’s not enough for Trump to endorse Sessions’s primary opponent. He wants his former Attorney General to stop taking his name in vain.
2020 elections
Mar. 31, 2020
Coronavirus-Scarred 2020 Congressional Landscape Leaning Democratic The Senate landscape is looking slightly bluer, and COVID-19 has frozen House races in ways that will make a Republican takeover more difficult.
2020 elections
Mar. 11, 2020
Trump Endorses Sessions Foe in Alabama Backing Tommy Tuberville is Trump’s ultimate revenge on his former attorney general for failing to quash what became the Mueller investigation.
super tuesday
Mar. 4, 2020
There Were Down-Ballot Contests on Super Tuesday, Too Five states had down-ballot races, and some will shape the congressional landscape in November.
everything is fine
Mar. 4, 2020
impeachment
Dec. 17, 2019
House Republican Wants Impeachment of Trump to Include Impeachment of Obama Bradley Byrne, an Alabama Republicans who needs some MAGA magic, is going the extra mile to go after Trump’s hated predecessor.
2020 elections
Nov. 7, 2019
Will Trump Crush Jeff Sessions’s Senate Comeback? With Sessions ready to jump into the race for his old seat, his GOP rivals hope Trump punishes him for recusal in the Russia collusion investigation.
u.s. senate
Oct. 29, 2019
Jeff Sessions May Seek Old Senate Seat Despite Crowded Field Will Donald Trump vengefully drop a hammer on his former attorney general?
alabama senate race
July 26, 2019
Tommy Tuberville: Roy Moore Without the Sex Scandals The former Auburn coach is working hard to dumb down the 2020 Alabama Senate race.
2020 alabama senate race
June 20, 2019
Judge Roy Moore Rides Again Into a 2020 Senate Race Everybody’s favorite theocrat and alleged mall creeper is again threatening to wreak havoc on his party’s Senate prospects in Alabama.
