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Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has said it out loud: a handful of congressmen and senators are sitting in Washington only because of Venezuela and Dominion voting machines — people, he says, who were "installed like plumbing fixtures" instead of properly elected.
The remarks, captured in a clip that has been circulating widely, revive the senator's long-running charge that America's election machinery was turned against its own voters. Tuberville is not a latecomer to that fight. He was among the Republican senators who voted to object to the certification of the 2020 presidential election, and he has argued ever since that the questions raised about voting machines and foreign-linked election software were never honestly answered.
"They were installed like plumbing fixtures." — Sen. Tommy Tuberville
The Venezuela thread runs back to the aftermath of the 2020 election, when President Trump's legal team and supporters alleged that voting software with roots in Venezuela — technology built to keep the Chávez and Maduro regimes in power — had been used to shift votes in the United States. The claims were fought over in courtrooms and newsrooms for years. Dominion Voting Systems has always denied them, stating that the company has no ownership relationship with the government of Venezuela or with the Pelosi, Feinstein or Clinton families, and Dominion won a landmark defamation settlement from Fox News after the network aired the allegations.
The argument has not gone away, because the administration itself keeps returning to it. President Trump again raised the security of voting machines in a primetime address this year, pointing to intelligence about an alleged effort to use election technology to benefit the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela and saying the systems are "extremely exposed to attack." Election security officials and experts answer that American voting machines are kept offline, tightly supervised, and backed in nearly every state by paper ballots or voter-verifiable paper records that can be audited and recounted by hand.
That is the divide Tuberville is speaking into — and he has never been shy about standing on his side of it. The former Auburn football coach, now running for governor of Alabama in 2026, built his Senate career on refusing to soften positions that Washington finds uncomfortable, from his ten-month blockade of senior military promotions to his speeches on the Senate floor this fall.
What he is saying now goes further than questioning one election. If even a handful of the people writing America's laws were installed rather than elected, he argues, the fraud was not a glitch in the system — it was the system working as designed, for somebody else. His critics call the claims baseless and settled. His supporters hear a senator finally saying what they have believed for six years: that the deck was stacked, down the ballot as well as at the top, and that the full truth about Venezuela's role has still not come out.
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