Tommy Tuberville's Defense Of White Nationalists Made Him MORE Popular In Alabama

Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville caused a stir last week when he actually defended white nationalists and suggested that they weren't racists, but that controversy apparently hasn't hurt him in his home state of Alabama. In conversations with The Hill, both Republican officials and voters said that they are more inclined to support him now, and Tuberville says he's received great feedback from his voters. That actually shouldn't come as a surprise, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville from the state of Alabama has been in the news a lot recently, not only for his blockade of Biden's nominations to effectively run the United States military, the Marines are actually now without a leader for the first time in their history. And that's all thanks to Tommy Tuberville. But he was also in the news last week, of course, for defending white nationalism, saying, it's just an opinion that these people are racist. He says they're just Americans. And then he defended that statement by becoming even more racist, by saying that he, as a football coach, has quote, dealt with more black people than anyone. So you would think with his basically assault on the military, you know, his embracing of white nationalism, trying to rebrand them as something they're not, you would think that that would be costing him. But according to a new report he's actually gaining in popularity in his home state of Alabama.

Now, I guess technically that shouldn't be a surprise, right? When your senator openly embraced racism, you know, 49 other states, that's probably gonna cause you a bit of a problem. But you go do that in Alabama and they're gonna be like, oh, hell yeah, let's get out the hoods. This guy's one of us. So I get it. Totally get why in the state of Alabama, embracing racists would actually elevate your campaign instead of destroying it. And that kind of seems to be the case here. But what's even worse is the fact that tuber v's assault on the military by blocking these Biden nominations, that even Republicans in the Senate want him to stop blocking. Like, they're not happy with it. They don't like it. They didn't like his racist comments last week. They denounced him. His own brother denounced him, but his constituents love it.

And see, this is where I think a lot of people forget that a disconnect exists. I am probably 20 minutes away from the state of Alabama. Like if I wanna basically leave my house, I have to go to Alabama to do that. So I'm very familiar with it. I, I live there for, you know, three or four years, uh, in my childhood, moved away from Florida to Alabama, back to Florida. You know, again, we're right on the border of Alabama. I see these people, I know these people. I have lots of friends in Alabama. I do business in Alabama.

And I can tell you in a way that a lot of these other folks who do this cannot, that racism does in fact work for these folks blocking these, you know, Biden appointees, because I'm standing up for, you know, pro-lifers is, is Tuberville argument. They like that. And the problem is, when you are not close to it, when you're looking at what happens in Alabama all the way from California, or maybe from New York, or, you know, even further up north, you're looking at it from a blue state perspective. You're looking at it and you're thinking, well, how can these people be so horrible? The whole state of Alabama? Just a bunch of racists. Now, trust me, they got a lot of them, but the whole state is not in fact racist. You know, I, I will definitely say that. I, I think it's ridiculous to think any state is 100% racist, but there are plenty of them.

And that's the problem, right? You don't have that perspective. Most of these folks who do what I do, they've never even gone to Alabama. They've never driven through it. They've never spent time there, they've never gone to school there.