Anti-authoritarianism activist and former Georgia Rep. Stacey Abrams warned Saturday that a MAGA-aligned senator just made a disturbing on-air confession in regards to his pending gubernatorial campaign.
Abrams appeared on MS NOW to discuss President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of nationwide voter fraud and the loyalists who have lined up to echo his claims — Sen. Tommy Tuberville in particular.
“They don’t care about the public,” said Abrams. “They don’t care about the republic. They don’t care about America. They care about being adjacent to power.”
Abrams was responding to Tuberville’s comments made to Newsmax Thursday claiming he’d “seen the evidence” that a system was in place to “put the screws” into Trump.
“You know, there’s no doubt,” Tuberville said. “We probably have four or five senators that didn’t legally win.”
Tuberville was referencing reports circulated that Trump would declare Georgia’s two Democratic U.S. senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, illegitimate amid his push to find voter fraud in the state, experts noted at the time.
MS NOW The Weekend co-host Eugene Daniels was quick to provide the context — then pivoted to a question.
“That rumor ended up not being reported,” said Daniels. “But what does it say that all of the levers of power that Republicans have seem to be pointed toward the same thing, which is making people believe that they can’t trust our elections, and then, more importantly, act on that belief and do things to make shenanigans within the election process?”
That’s when Abrams argued Tuberville had made a serious slip in regards to his mounting gubernatorial campaign.
“His illegitimacy argument is a confession,” said Abrams. “He doesn’t live in Alabama, and he’s being challenged for that inadequacy.”
According to the Alabama Reflector, two plaintiffs have claimed the U.S. Senator does not meet the Alabama Constitution’s seven-year residency requirement to serve as governor and have filed an appeal to challenge a lower court’s dismissal of their case.
Abrams argued Tuberville’s echoing MAGA talking points stood as proof to that legal challenge by showcasing his desperation to stay close to Trump.
She then called on voters to act.
“What we do about it is make certain that someone like Tommy Tuberville doesn’t move from the Senate to becoming the governor of Alabama,” she said. “We cannot let them steal from us our confidence in our democracy.”