Why Tuberville Is Leaving The Senate: "I Think It Should Be Merit Based"

News Staff • August 29, 2025

Tuberville explains why he wants to leave Senate for Governorship

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville spoke out on the Charlie Kirk Show and answered the question about why he is leaving the Senate to become the Governor of Alabama. His answer was direct and condemning of the current congressional process.


“I think it should be merit based. Everybody talks about term limits and all those things. Term limits should have nothing to do with it. Seniority should have nothing to do with it.”


Also during the Kirk interview Tuberville reflected on the current status of crime:


"President Trump is up to his ears in alligators, and he knows that," Tuberville outlined. "There's different problems every day. And I've told people this with traveling the state and country this last month out of Washington, D.C., [that] if you don't have control of your streets and your neighborhoods, you have nothing. I don't care if you have got money and a great family and everything going for you, you have to have safety. Well, that's what President Trump is trying to put back into our country."


"Now, I've been in Washington, D.C., about five years, and what a disaster ... homeless everywhere," he continued. "I could have made several citizen's arrests myself of watching nonsense go on. I've been accosted out exercising up and down the mall there in Washington, D.C. We're in trouble. The country's in trouble. Thank God for President Trump and him pulling the situation of bringing more law enforcement, which is our National Guard, to cities. ... They have no idea of what to do because they are trying to destroy our country from within."


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