AL-SEN: This Republican Senate candidate appears to have no idea what the Voting Rights Act is
(CNN)Former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville is favored to beat Democratic Alabama Sen. Doug Jones this fall and join one of the world's most exclusive clubs. Which makes his recent answer to a question about whether or not he supports the Voting Right Acts all the more worrisome.
In audio obtained by HuffPost from a September 1 call at the Birmingham, Alabama, Sunrise Rotary Club, Tuberville delivers up a heaping portion of word salad when asked about the VRA. Read it for yourself:
"You know, the thing about the Voting Rights Act it's, you know ― there's a lot of different things you can look at it as, you know, who's it going to help? What direction do we need to go with it? I think it's important that everything we do we keep secure. We keep an eye on it. It's run by our government. And it's run to the, to the point that we, it's got structure to it. It's like education. I mean, it's got to have structure. Now for some reason, we look at things to change, to think we're gonna make it better, but we better do a lot of work on it before we make a change."
I think my favorite part of Tuberville's answer is this bit: "It's run by our government. And it's run to the, to the point that we, it's got structure to it. It's like education. I mean, it's got to have structure."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/tommy-tuberville-voting-rights-act-alabama/index.html
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