Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville was so dismayed by the GOP’s new talking points trying to explain the Senate’s failure to pass an election integrity bill that he immediately binned them.
“I just wadded them up and threw them in the trash. I don’t work for the Senate. I work for the American people and the people of Alabama, and I am going to do what is best for them,” Mr. Tuberville told “Seen, Heard & Whispered” during an interview Wednesday on One America News.
The talking points from GOP leaders urged senators to try to deflect questions about the election legislation — the SAVE America Act — by instead talking about the economy.
“When 80% to 90% of the people across the country say they want this bill passed, I think we should pass it. I don’t think there is any doubt, but we have people that don’t like President Trump or they got big egos,” said Mr. Tuberville, who is the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Alabama.
Mr. Trump has called on the Senate to remain in session during August to try to force action on the election integrity bill, which would impose new citizenship and ID checks on voters in federal elections.
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Republican Senate leaders, though, say the legislation cannot overcome a Democratic filibuster and that canceling the August vacation won’t change that math.
That was the gist of the talking points, too.
“All the talking points they want to send to me, all I want to do is tell them back, ’Let’s not try to survive; let’s try to win,’” Mr. Tuberville said.
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