Three days after winning the governor's race, Tommy Tuberville sat down with Bryan Dawson and did not soften anything.
Tuberville has two months left in the U.S. Senate before taking office in Montgomery, and in this conversation, he lays out what he intends to do with the job.
On crime, Tuberville says plainly that people will not be running wild, that Montgomery's police force cannot recruit because the city is a war zone, and that he has already talked with the president about what federal help would look like. On manufacturing, he says his phone is ringing from companies looking at Alabama, and he intends to answer it.
He is straightforward about the national picture, including his own party, saying that Republicans did not back the president over the last two years, that the Iran war went on too long and cost them the election, and that he is angry nobody has gone to jail over what he believes happened during COVID.
Tuberville also has news for the press. Cover state government, he says, and he is all for it. Get something wrong about his administration, and good luck getting access.
He also talks about the pastors he thinks stayed quiet, the straight-ticket Democratic turnout that surprised him, and why he took the first Albert Patterson Courage Award for an 11-month stand that left him largely alone.
TOPICS TACKLED:
• Two months left in the Senate, and what Tuberville does with them
• Why Tuberville says Republicans, not just Democrats, lost this election
• The Iran war, the economy, and the promise Tuberville says went unkept
• "Nobody's arrested": Tuberville’s anger about accountability
• A warning to the press about access
• Data centers, and the fight Tuberville says people picked wrong
• Crime in Montgomery, recruiting police, and calling in federal help
• Straight-ticket Democratic voting at a level Tuberville says Alabama has never seen
• Pastors, pulpits, and what Tuberville says churches owe the moment
• The Albert Patterson Courage Award and the 11-month stand behind it
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