Navy Reserve captain joins race for Tommy Tuberville's Senate seat

WASHINGTON – The race to replace Tommy Tuberville in the U.S. Senate is heating up, as a Trump administration official who helped orchestrate an unprecedented blockade on military confirmations enters the GOP field.

Morgan Murphy, a former Tuberville aide who worked at the White House until last week, will announce his candidacy for Alabama’s open Senate seat at an event the evening of Sept. 22 in Birmingham, Alabama.

A captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve and former food critic who worked at Southern Living and Forbes magazines before he entered the national security space, Murphy is a first-time candidate. He achieved notoriety in Washington for engineering Tuberville’s months-long hold on military promotions over objections to the Department of Defense’s abortion policy.

"I feel called to run because President Trump's America First agenda is the first political movement in my lifetime that made sense to me," Murphy told USA TODAY. "And I want to see his common-sense approach to government last not just another three-and-a-half years while he's in office but well beyond."

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