President Donald Trump said on a radio show in New York Sunday that he had spoken with Alabama U.S. Senator-elect and former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville over the weekend.
Tuberville has said he may support a potential challenge to the U.S. presidential election result from November, in which Joe Biden defeated the incumbent Trump. The House and Senate will convene in January to officially confirm Biden as the nation’s 46th president.
In an interview with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on New York’s WABC radio station, Trump said he talked to Tuberville on Saturday night, according to the Washington Post. It’s unclear what they talked about.
Both Trump and Tuberville won handily in Alabama in November, and Tuberville ran his Senate campaign on strong support of and from the president.
Last week, Trump praised incoming the incoming senator after reports surfaced that the freshman lawmaker may back Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks’ Electoral College challenge.
In a tweet, Trump called Tuberville “a great champion and man of courage.”
“More Republican Senators should follow his lead,” the President tweeted. “We had a landslide victory, and then it was swindled away from the Republican Party - but we caught them. Do something!”