Most senators go on Fox Business to talk tax policy or trade. Tommy Tuberville went on and dropped something that should have set off alarms from Washington, DC to every statehouse in the country.
The Alabama Republican didn’t hint at it. He said it out loud, on camera, to a national audience.
And what he said about sitting members of Congress is the kind of thing the mainstream press will quietly bury — which is exactly why you need to read it.
What Tuberville Said on Kudlow
US Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) sat down with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow recently to talk election integrity and the fight to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — better known as the SAVE Act.
The conversation covered ground most Republicans won’t touch: voting machines, voter ID requirements, same-day voting. Standard fare for Tuberville, who has been one of the loudest voices in the Senate demanding election reform.
But then he said this.
“There’s a half a dozen people, whether it’s the House or Senate that are up here as we speak that did not get elected,” Tuberville told Kudlow. “It was all bogus because we’ve seen the evidence.”
He didn’t name names. He didn’t detail the evidence. But a sitting US senator just told a national television audience that roughly half a dozen members of Congress are occupying seats they didn’t legitimately win.
Tuberville also pushed back hard on the machines themselves, echoing President Donald Trump’s long-standing call to ditch them entirely. “And then, of course, President Trump wants same-day voting, mail ballots, get rid of these voting machines,” he said.
Kudlow chimed in with his own frustration, noting that in Connecticut — where he votes — there’s no photo ID requirement at all. “Anybody can get a credit card, any kind of credit card, you could show them a debit card, and that’s sufficient,” Kudlow said, calling the current patchwork of state standards a vulnerability waiting to be exploited.
The SAVE Act and the Fight Republicans Can’t Afford to Lose
The SAVE Act — the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — is a commonsense protection for American elections that simply requires voters to prove they are US citizens when they register to vote in federal elections.
The House passed the bill in February 2026. The Senate is where it stalled, blocked by a Democrat filibuster that requires 60 votes to break. Republicans hold 53 seats, meaning they need at least seven Democrats to cross over — and those votes haven’t materialized.
Tuberville made clear he sees the stakes as existential for the Republican Party heading into the fall midterms. “If we don’t straighten that out, you’re going to see a lot more of it this fall,” he said. “It’s just going to get worse and worse.”
And then he put it plainly: “As Republicans, we had better listen to them and do that, or we’re going to lose next fall.”
That’s not a politician blowing smoke. That’s a warning from someone who watched what happened in 2020 and has been sounding the alarm ever since.
Tuberville was one of the senators who refused to certify the 2020 presidential election results and has maintained that the questions surrounding that election deserve answers, not dismissal.
The concerns millions of Americans have raised about 2020 — the last-minute changes to voting rules made under cover of COVID, the flood of private money into election offices, the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story by Big Tech and the corporate press — have never been adequately addressed. They’ve been mocked, buried, and labeled without ever being genuinely investigated.
Why This Matters Going Into 2026
Think about what Tuberville is actually saying. Not in the abstract. Concretely.
A sitting US senator, with access to intelligence and colleagues across both chambers, is telling the American public that people are walking the halls of Congress right now who didn’t earn their seats. That the machines, the rules, or both — produced outcomes that don’t reflect how Americans actually voted.
His office had not responded to requests for specifics at the time of publication. But the claim itself carries weight precisely because of who is making it.
And the Democrat Party’s response to all of this? Block the SAVE Act. Keep the filibuster in place. Refuse to require citizens to prove they’re citizens before casting a ballot in a federal election. Chuck Schumer has called the SAVE Act “a voter suppression bill.” That’s rich coming from a party that spent years demanding vaccine cards and mask mandates to enter a grocery store but suddenly can’t figure out why showing a birth certificate or passport to vote might be reasonable.
The SAVE Act doesn’t ask for anything exotic. A passport. A birth certificate. A military ID. Documents that most Americans already have and that every other serious interaction with the federal government already requires.
But Democrats know what the bill would actually do — it would close off one of the pathways they’ve been quietly expanding for years. And they’re not going to let it pass without a fight.
Tuberville put the choice plainly. Republicans can get this done, or they can watch the same problems compound heading into another election cycle. The American people are watching. And they’re not going to wait forever.
Sources: Fox Business / Kudlow interview with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), February 2026; Lifezette, February 5, 2026; 1819 News, February 4, 2026; Mediaite, February 4, 2026; Congress.gov, H.R. 22, 119th Congress (SAVE Act)