Republican voters in Alabama are headed to the polls on Tuesday to choose from a field of primary contenders vying to replace Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican who is vacating his seat to run for governor.<\/p>\n
The winner will be an overwhelming favorite in the general election in deep-red Alabama, where Democrats have won just one statewide<\/a> race since 2008. The Senate primary pits Representative Barry Moore against the state\u2019s attorney general, Steve Marshall, and Jared Hudson, a former Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n Mr. Moore received President Trump\u2019s endorsement months ago<\/a> and has a well-funded campaign. The election will offer the latest test of the power of Mr. Trump\u2019s endorsement, days after primary voters in Louisiana rejected the incumbent Republican senator Bill Cassidy<\/a> at the president\u2019s urging.<\/p>\n Michael Lowry, a Republican pollster in Alabama and former chief of staff to Representative Robert Aderholt, said there was no clear front-runner in his state. \u201cThis is a tossup,\u201d Mr. Lowry said, adding that \u201cthe candidates have not seemed to connect with voters.\u201d<\/p>\n If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the two leading vote-getters will advance to a runoff scheduled for next month.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what to know.<\/p>\n Moore hopes to be lifted by Trump\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n Mr. Moore, a third-term congressman from a deeply conservative district in the southern part of the state, said his closing pitch to voters was that he had been \u201cin the fight\u201d with Mr. Trump in \u201ctrying to get that America first agenda finished.\u201d (Mr. Trump carried the state<\/a> by more than 30 percentage points in 2024.)<\/p>\n \u201cWe have relationships with the White House \u2014 that matters,\u201d Mr. Moore, 59, said in an interview. \u201cAs the president talks about the golden age of America, there\u2019s an opportunity for Alabama to be in that golden age.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Trump said in his endorsement that Mr. Moore had \u201cbeen with me from the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n Marshall has been at the center of major political fights in the state.<\/p>\n Mr. Marshall, 61, has served as the state\u2019s attorney general for nearly a decade. In recent weeks, he has played a key role in a congressional redistricting effort in the state.<\/p>\n After the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, his office asked the court to clear the way for Alabama lawmakers<\/a> to redraw the state\u2019s House map. Last week, the court followed through<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mr. Marshall\u2019s office also said last week that it had opened an investigation<\/a> into the Southern Poverty Law Center, a prominent civil rights group based in the state. The organization has angered Republicans by targeting groups<\/a> that many conservatives consider mainstream.<\/p>\n Mr. Marshall said in an in interview that he had \u201ctaken on the issues that are of significant concern to the people of Alabama.\u201d<\/p>\n Hudson is a wild card.<\/p>\n Some opinion polls<\/a> have shown Mr. Hudson competing with Mr. Moore and Mr. Marshall. Mr. Hudson, 40, ran for Jefferson County sheriff in 2022 and was the first candidate to join the Senate race.<\/a><\/p>\n He has put his Christian faith at the center of his campaign. \u201cI\u2019m a born-again believer in Jesus Christ, and that\u2019s the most important thing,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n He is also campaigning on a call for congressional term limits, arguing that senators and representatives should not serve for longer than 12 years.<\/p>\n Four candidates are running in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n Competing in the Democratic race are Dakarai Larriett, a businessman; Kyle Sweetser, a former construction worker who has said he voted<\/a> for Mr. Trump twice before turning on him; Everett Wess, a lawyer; and Mark S. Wheeler II, a chemist.<\/p>\n The general election is not expected to be competitive. But Democrats have won in Alabama before: In 2017, Doug Jones, a former prosecutor, won a Senate seat<\/a> in Alabama after his opponent, Roy S. Moore, was weighed down by accusations of sexual abuse. Mr. Jones lost his seat in 2020<\/a> and is now running for governor<\/a>.<\/p>\n Polls close at 7 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n Voters in Alabama who are in line by 7 p.m. will be allowed to cast ballots. (Most of the state is on Central time, and a sliver is on Eastern time.) The state has open primaries, which means voters can choose a Republican or Democratic ballot. 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