A former top aide to U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and recent White House official, Morgan Murphy, will launch a Republican bid for Alabama’s open U.S. Senate seat at an event in Birmingham this evening, according to a news report from USA Today.

Murphy, 53, is a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve and a first-time candidate who drew national attention for helping engineer Tuberville’s monthslong blockade of military promotions over the Biden Pentagon’s military abortion travel policy, which was eventually reversed.

He left a White House public-diplomacy role last week ahead of the announcement.

“I feel called to run because President Trump’s America first agenda is the first political movement in my lifetime that made sense to me,” Murphy told USA Today.

He said he wants Trump

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