BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Morgan Murphy, who led one of the most well-known Southern magazines in the country before getting into politics under U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, will be running for his boss' former job.

Murphy, who served as Tuberville's national security advisor from 2021 to 2023, will run for an Alabama U.S. Senate seat and is set to make his official announcement Monday night. Murphy, who from 2000 and 2015 worked as a food critic and, later, editor-in-chief at Southern Living, currently serves as a senior public diplomacy advisor on public policy in the Trump administration, specifically on Ukraine.

After getting out of media, Murphy began his Washington career in 2020, first as press secretary to Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and then-Deputy Secretary of Defense K

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