U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) danced his way to the lectern in front of a packed Neville Arena crowd on Wednesday night at Turning Point USA’s “This is the Turning Point Tour” stop at Auburn University.

“I think I’ve been here before,” Tuberville opened, drawing laughs from the rows of Auburn students seated in front of him.

“I tell everybody that doesn’t know me very well backstage — ‘Coach, you been here?’ — I said, “Well, I live three blocks from here. Yeah, I’ve been here before.”

Tuberville, now the presumptive Republican nominee to be Alabama’s next governor, recalled his first encounter with slain Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk during his 2020 campaign for U.S. Senate.

“You know, Charlie and I met back in 2020 when I was running for Senate, and he actually

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