Tommy Tuberville tells Steve Bannon 2020 election was stolen in offensive rant about Joe Biden

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville questioned the validity of the 2020 election during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast with an offensive rant in which he called President Joe Biden a “bedridden dementia patient.” Bannon, President-elect Donald Trump’s former White House chief strategist, asked Tuberville about the Democrats, saying “They’re there to fully stop Donald Trump and hopefully take their plans to take the House in two years and impeach him, right?” Tuberville said the Democrats’ plan “was accelerated because they stole the election from President Trump and they were able to get four years with a bedridden dementia patient.” A popular and baseless conspiracy theory on the right is that shadowy forces, and not Biden, are in charge of the U.S. government. Bannon went on to ask if there was “No doubt in your mind that the 2020 was stolen?” “Listen, I’ve been up for four years and I saw him maybe four or five times in the Capitol,” Tuberville said of Biden, according to Mediaite. The Alabama Senator has dismissed President Joe Biden as a ‘bedridden dementia patient’ “Are you kidding me? Both of Trump’s nominees for Secretary of Defence, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General, former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, may face uphill battles to be confirmed even in a Republican-controlled Senate.