Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville argued Monday that his Republican Senate colleagues who oppose president-elect Donald Trump’s nominees are defying the wishes of their own constituents, who flocked to the polls for Trump.
“I don’t understand it,” he said in a Monday phone interview with The Daily Wire. “The American people gave him a mandate. This is his team now. He needs the opportunity to put the people around him that are gonna help him with his agenda. Who are we to say that we know more about these people than Trump?”
There’s quite a few senators who are not fans of Trump, he noted, including several Republicans.
“I went through the first process with Biden when I first got here,” he added. “There were zero Democrats that voted against any of his nominees. Zero. We got three or four of these nominees fighting to get all the Republican votes. They’re fighting…
