Alabama Democratic Party Wants Former Football Coach Nick Saban To Challenge GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville

The Alabama Democratic Party has floated the idea of former football coach Nick Saban running against Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) for the U.S. Senate.

Saban, days after his team was eliminated from the college football playoff, announced that he would retire.

In early January, there were increasing calls for the former coach to enter politics.

On January 10, Josh Moon, a reporter for the Alabama Political Reporter, suggested that Saban, the winner of six national championships with the Alabama Crimson Tide, should transfer to politics.

“Nick Saban for U.S. Senate,” Moon wrote on X. “Save us from Tommy Tuberville one more time.”

The Alabama Democratic Party reposted this suggestion and emphasized their endorsement of it in the caption.

“We officially second this,” they stated.

Saban stayed away from politics for most of his career, except when he endorsed Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), whom he grew up with in West Virginia.

Saban signed a letter to Manchin in January 2022, asking him to support the passage of the Freedom to Vote Act.

Despite people hoping the former coach would run for Senate, Manchin said on January 12 there was no chance of that happening.

“First of all you can put that out of your mind, because Nick won’t run,” Manchin said at Mary Ann’s Diner in Derry, New Hampshire. “He would never run. I’ve know him since he was four years old. I’m godparents to his son. We’re very, very close.”

Tuberville has been very controversial during his short time in the Senate. He spent months holding up the promotions of hundreds of military leaders due to a dispute over abortion policy. He also said that he thought white nationalists should be allowed to serve in the military.