CAMPAIGN 2026: U.S. Rep. Barry Moore announces run for U.S. Senate

Photo from the Office of U.S. Rep. Barry Moore

CAMPAIGN 2026: U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-1st District) has announced that he is running for Alabama’s open U.S. Senate seat.

The seat is open because U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) is running for governor.

Moore is in his third term in Congress and is a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus. In a campaign video announcing his candidacy, he emphasized his history as an early supporter of President Donald Trump.

“I’m running for Senate because the people of Alabama deserve a Trump conservative and a working man who will defend their freedoms,” Moore, who’s in the construction and demolition business, said.

He promised to “defend the MAGA agenda in the Senate, just like I have as a member of the Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives.”

A former member of the Alabama Legislature, Moore was first elected to Congress in 2020, representing District 2.

He has the rare distinction of winning elections in two different congressional districts. For the 2024 election, a federal court ordered Alabama to use a new congressional map because it said the old map illegally diluted the voting power of Black residents.

Moore’s home in Enterprise was drawn out of District 2 by those new maps. Rather than moving to seek re-election to his old seat, Moore opted to challenge incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl in the more solidly Republican 1st District which now contains Enterprise. He won the election after a hard-fought primary between the two incumbents.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, is running for the Senate. Other candidates include Republican Jared Hudson, a former U.S. Navy SEAL from Birmingham, and Kyle Sweetser a Democrat from Mobile.

The party primaries are May 19, 2026.

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