WASHINGTON – The race to replace Tommy Tuberville in the U.S. Senate is heating up, as a Trump administration official who helped orchestrate an unprecedented blockade on military confirmations enters the GOP field.

Morgan Murphy, a former Tuberville aide who worked at the White House until last week, will announce his candidacy for Alabama’s open Senate seat at an event this evening in Birmingham, Alabama.

A captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve and former food critic who worked at Southern Living and Forbes before he entered the national security space, Murphy is a first-time candidate. He achieved notoriety in Washington for engineering Tuberville’s monthslong hold on military promotions over objections to the Department of Defense’s abortion policy.

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