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Tuberville has advocated repealing the Affordable Care Act and has not publicly outlined a replacement plan; he emphasizes free-market health care reforms and protection for individuals with pre-existing conditions. He also supports health-care price transparency, as shown by his cosponsorship of the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act.

Expand Medicaid to cover more than 154,000 working Alabamians on day one, stop Alabama from turning down roughly $182 million in federal healthcare funding each year, strengthen rural healthcare, and reduce uncompensated care across the state.

Tommy Tuberville advocates pro-growth, small-government economics: lower taxes, less regulation, and policies to attract manufacturing and jobs in Alabama. He also opposes large federal spending and supports repealing or rolling back policies he views as overreach, including opposition to IRS expansion.

Jones’ economic platform centers on lowering costs for Alabama families and expanding opportunity. He supports eliminating the grocery tax, suspending the gas tax when prices spike, raising wages (including an enhanced minimum wage), creating an Earned Income Tax Credit, expanding Medicaid to cover more working Alabamians, expanding childcare options, and offering free community college for adults without credentials.

Tommy Tuberville supports an all-of-the-above energy policy prioritizing domestic energy production and energy independence—including oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy—while opposing the Biden climate agenda and related federal regulations.

Doug Jones supports reducing energy costs for Alabama families as part of his 'Lower Costs & Tackle the Affordability Crisis' priorities, including suspending the state gas tax when prices spike to provide fast relief and fully eliminating the grocery tax to let families keep more of their money.

Pro-life; opposes taxpayer funding for abortion and supports policies to restrict abortion in line with Alabama's traditional values. Tuberville has stated that zero taxpayer dollars should go towards abortions and has supported life-protective measures.

Doug Jones supports expanding healthcare access in Alabama (including Medicaid expansion) and protecting reproductive health options by safeguarding contraception and IVF. He has publicly criticized restrictive abortion policies, signaling support for policies that reduce maternal health risks and protect reproductive options.

Tommy Tuberville advocates a hardline immigration policy focused on border security and enforcement. He supports building the southern border wall, deporting illegal entrants, and strengthening immigration enforcement, and he backs the Assimilation Act to replace chain migration and the visa lottery with a national-interest, merit-based system that prioritizes assimilation, American workers, tighter asylum rules, and expanded E-Verify.

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Tommy Tuberville states that he will always defend the Second Amendment rights of Americans to keep and bear arms and will continue to fight against government overreach that curtails law-abiding citizens’ Second Amendment rights.

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Tommy Tuberville supports a hard-line national-security approach, including introducing the Student Visa Integrity Act (2025) to ban Chinese and Iranian nationals from studying in the United States.

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Tuberville opposes CRT and DEI initiatives in government and schools, and opposes policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in women's sports. He also opposes taxpayer funding for abortions and supports policies he describes as protecting "common sense" conservative values.

Doug Jones supports protecting and expanding voting rights and civil rights protections, including defending access to the ballot, opposing policies that suppress participation, and advocating for reforms to ensure equal protection under the law for all Alabamians.

Education policy centers on expanding school choice and putting parents in charge of their children's education, backing a mix of charter, magnet, private, public, and homeschooling options and opposing DEI and CRT curricula in schools.

Doug Jones's education-related proposals include providing free community college for adults without credentials and funding education through lottery revenue; these policies are part of his broader priorities to expand opportunity and lower costs rather than a stand-alone K-12 reform platform.

Tuberville supports using AI and data-center investment to boost Alabama's economy, aiming to attract data centers (including in rural areas) and to align energy infrastructure with new tech development; he views AI as a driver of energy policy and pricing and supports manufacturing growth and tax revenue from tech investments.

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Doug Jones supports expanding voting access (including statewide early voting) and enabling citizen-led ballot initiatives and referendums. He also backs ethics reforms, such as banning statewide elected officials from trading individual stocks, and supports a constitutional amendment to end partisan gerrymandering by creating an independent redistricting commission.

Opposes CRT and DEI initiatives in Alabama government and schools, and supports policies recognizing biological sex categories and opposing taxpayer funding for abortions, consistent with his stated conservative values.

Doug Jones's plan for Alabama's local issues centers on lowering everyday costs while expanding opportunity and improving government accountability. Specifically, he supports temporarily suspending the state gas tax when prices spike, fully eliminating the grocery tax, raising wages (including the minimum wage), ending taxes on overtime, and increasing transparency and local representation in the Public Service Commission.