Tommy Tuberville in Mother Jones magazine

On Education: When we took away prayer in school we killed this country

"When we took away prayer in the schools in the 1960s," Tuberville said, "we killed this country. We got to get it back." He then segues into a false representation of Islamic schoolchildren: "There's a double standard. We can't pray in schools but we got a certain religion that's come into this country and they can pray five times a day in our schools.without repercussions. But if we say the Lord's Prayer you know we get suspended, our kids get sent home. That's wrong. That's going to change." Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2020 Alabama Senate race Aug 7, 2019

On Immigration: Get a wall up or some kind of fencing

Nativism is showing up in his campaign issues. "Right now, they're just coming over tens of thousands a day. They're bringing drugs; they're bringing diseases," he said. "They're doing everything possible to come here, and you can't blame them, but we got to get our Congress together and help President Trump do things necessary to get a wall up or some kind of fencing." Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2020 Alabama Senate race Aug 7, 2019

On Principles & Values: We've got to put Jesus and God before everything else

"[W]e've got to put Jesus and God before everything else. And if we don't do that we're going to be brought down to our knees again," he said."I think God brought [Trump] to us, and gave us the opportunity to have somebody just take the gloves off, start swinging, try to run these people back in their holes," he said. "I want to go to Washington to help him." Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2020 Alabama Senate race Aug 7, 2019

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