Rep. Barry Moore, R-Ala., announced his bid Tuesday to become the GOP nominee to fill the Senate seat to be vacated by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who is running for governor. 

Moore is an Alabama native and a graduate of the state’s land grant research university, Auburn, where he studied agricultural science. His public service began in college when he joined the ROTC program and was commissioned into the National Guard.

Along with his wife, he founded a successful waste-disposal company in 1998. Moore served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 2010 to 2018. The then-Alabama state legislator was one of the earliest elected officials to publicly endorse President Donald Trump during the latter’s 2016 presidential run, appearing on stage at a Trump rally in August 2015 in Mobile, Alabama.

In an interview with The Daily Signal, Moore recalled that fateful day.

“It was odd because we were on the south end of the stadium in an RV, and there was a guy from New York, they had said he had a less than 1% chance to get the nomination. There were 17 in the primary. In fact, he could........

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