White House Gears Up for Showdown with Tuberville

President Joe Biden has been targeting Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a first-term Republican and former college football coach, in his fundraising pitches, social media, and speeches. Tuberville has drawn attention for blocking military promotions over the Pentagon's policy on paying expenses for women in the military who must travel for abortion care, as well as his remarks on white nationalism and praise for federal infrastructure money despite voting against the bill. Biden mocks Tuberville's former life as a coach and refers to him as "the former football coach from Alabama, who was a better coach than he's a senator." The president's focus on Tuberville highlights the GOP's divisions on abortion and hypocrisy. Tuberville's obstruction also reveals what Biden sees as the extremism of today's Republican Party.