Tuberville Touts Trump Ties, Alabama Agenda in Mobile

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville used his introduction of President Donald Trump in Mobile Friday night to look back on his six years in Washington and lay out his plans for Alabama as the Republican nominee for Governor.

“I’ve been excited and proud to have represented you for the last six years in the United States Senate,” Tuberville told the enthusiastic crowd. “We’re all here tonight because we love our State, we love our country. I can’t say the same for the Democrats or RINOs and the mainstream media.”

Tuberville spent much of his speech praising Trump’s record and contrasting it with the Biden years, pointing to his work on the Senate Armed Services Committee and saying national security, the southern border and border security had suffered under the last White House.

He recalled pressing former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about illegal immigration. Tuberville credited Trump with sharply cutting illegal crossings since returning to office and argued that tighter border controls are also helping slow the flow of fentanyl.

“We love people, but we want to take care of our people first,” Tuberville said.

He then shifted his focus to Alabama and the economic projects he said Trump has helped bring to the state.

“He, in his first year and a half, has given the state of Alabama 30 or $40 billion,” Tuberville said. “He loves this State.”

Tuberville cited U.S. Space Command in Huntsville, the FBI’s growing presence at Redstone Arsenal and new shipbuilding work on the Gulf Coast as examples.

“We’re getting ready to open up shipbuilding in this port here in Mobile, Alabama,” Tuberville said.

But Tuberville said Alabama must have workers ready to fill those jobs.

Drawing on his 35 years as a coach and educator, Tuberville argued that Alabama needs to put more stress on trade schools, junior colleges and skills that lead directly to work.

“I was in it for 35 years: education,” Tuberville said. “They tried to destroy our kids through woke ideas, DEI, social justice, and the government controlling your kids and not you.”

“Bull crap,” he added.

Tuberville said Alabama should move away from the idea that every student needs a four-year college degree.

“Every kid does not need to go to a four-year school,” he said. “We’re going to use our hands.”

“We’re going to use our hands. We’re going to teach people and our kids. We’re going to teach them education, and we’re going to teach them how to live a life, to do things with their hands and make decisions,” Tuberville said.

Agriculture was also part of his pitch.

“We got a lot of work to do in this State. We need to help our farmers,” Tuberville said. “They want all the food coming from overseas.”

“We have to be self-sufficient, and President Trump will talk about that tonight,” he added.

Tuberville closed by urging the crowd to vote and presenting his run for Governor as another chapter of public service rather than a bid to build a long political career.

His message Friday was that Alabama has a rare chance to capitalize on its ties to the Trump White House — and that he intends to use those ties to push for more jobs, investment and growth if voters send him to Montgomery.

Tuberville then turned the stage over to Trump, framing the President’s appearance as part of a broader effort to restore what he described as American strength and pride.

Tuberville’s full remarks may be seen on the Right Side Broadcasting Network YouTube channel or below: