Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall discussed policy priorities for his 2026 Senate bid during a Wednesday media appearance.
Marshall, who’s running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, expressed his stances on gender-affirming care, international relations and ongoing unrest in Los Angeles during a Wednesday appearance on CBS 42 Morning News.
When asked why he chose to run for Tuberville’s seat, Marshall said he hoped the position would give him a chance to further pursue issues he has focused on during his time as attorney general.
“The issues that we’ve been engaged with about dealing with girls’ sports and making it clear who’s a boy and who’s a girl, when we think about the fight we’ve had around gender affirming care, the work that we’ve done on energy and making sure we have affordable energy for Alabamians; those are the things that really has got me excited,” said Marshall.
Throughout his time as attorney general, Marshall has worked to defend legislation prohibiting gender affirming care for minors.
The attorney general has also pursued legal action against the Biden administration following a 2024 Title IX rule which expanded the civil rights law’s protections against sex-based discrimination to also include discrimination against one’s gender identity.
Marshall has also strongly supported fossil fuel production, and filed a suit against the Biden administration for regulations attempting to implement greater use of electronic vehicles in commercial trucking fleets.
When asked what he thinks is the greatest threat to U.S. interests, Marshall responded “China, clearly economically and militarily.”
“I hope the work that President Trump is trying to do through the tariffs to be able to reset that economic relationship with China will make a difference,” he said. ”But they clearly are our greatest threat on an international level, and is one of the areas in which I’ll be engaged.”
When asked for his stance on Trump’s deployment of Marines and National Guard troops to quell violence and unrest in Los Angeles, Marshall expressed support for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions that sparked protests across the city, as well as Trump’s response to the situation.
“These are valid arrests. Nobody’s disputing that. It’s simply you have protestors engaging in, not only the massive destruction of personal property, but also violence against law enforcement because they simply don’t agree with law enforcement doing their job,” Marshall said. “I appreciate an administration that’s being aggressive, and President Trump needs a partner in D.C. and that’s what I’ll do as a senator.”
