The announcement last week by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., that he will seek the Republican nomination for governor of Alabama sparked what is shaping up to be a hard-fought and very uncertain Republican primary to succeed him.

Only one thing is certain: The winner of the Republican primary on May 19 will go on to be U.S. senator in a state that has elected only one Democrat to the Senate in the past three decades (Doug Jones, who narrowly won a special election in 2017 over GOP nominee Roy Moore and was unseated by Tuberville in 2020).

At this point, three Republicans have declared for nomination: Steve Marshall, state attorney general since 2017; former U.S. Navy Seal Jared Hudson, who lost a bid for sheriff of Jefferson County in 2022; and Jeremy Spratling, CEO of the Corporate Facilities Management firm in Birmingham.

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