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The following politicians from Alabama have helped enable Trump’s ongoing grip on the GOP.
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Robert B. Aderholt (R-Ala.) has served Alabama’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives for almost three decades. A member of the Tea Party Caucus who actively supported the Big Lie, he was reelected in 2022 and began his 14th term in January 2023.
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Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011–22, representing Alabama’s 5th Congressional District. He was a member of the far-right Freedom Caucus and claimed that during President Obama’s administration the Democratic Party had launched a “war on whites.”
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Jerry Carl (R-Ala.) has served Alabama’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021 and easily won reelection in 2022 with Trump’s “complete and total endorsement,” winning 82% of the vote in his very red state.
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Steve Marshall (R) has served as Alabama’s attorney general since 2017 and readily won reelection in 2022 given the Republican dominance in the state.
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Barry Moore (R-Ala.) was first sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 3, 2021, serving Alabama’s largely rural 2nd Congressional District in the southeastern part of the state. In 2022, he ran for a second term with Trump’s endorsement and won in his solidly Republican district.
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Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) has served Alabama’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015 and has chaired the House Republican Policy Committee since 2019. He ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in his solidly Republican district.
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Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) has represented Alabama’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2003. He ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in his solidly Republican district.
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A conservative Christian and die-hard Trump loyalist, Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has served in the U.S. Senate since 2021 as the junior senator from Alabama.