Alabama’s U.S. Senators prepare for Majority Leader vote

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WIAT ) — Tomorrow, the Republican-led U.S. Senate will decide who they want as their majority leader. CBS 42 spoke with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) to find out who they're supporting and why.

"We're all friends," remarked Sen. Tuberville. "When you work together- it's kind of like a football team. When you're around each other all day long and you fight, you laugh, you cry together- you congratulate each other."

Right now, there are three candidates for Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate. Those in the running are Sen. John Thune (R-SD), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL)- who has the endorsements of President-Elect Donald Trump's main supporters.

Sen. Tuberville said Sen. Scott has his support. "At the end of the day, I think they'll communicate very well and it's fresh new ideas [that] I'm looking from Rick Scott. I don't know whether he can win, but we're gonna wait and see. And we'll probably find out about this time tomorrow," said Sen. Tuberville.

He explained he made his decision for Scott based on what Alabamians want. "After all the new people have come in, we gotta come out swinging," said Sen. Tuberville. "Because about the first hundred days are gonna be the best days for President Trump in terms of getting it back in order."

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Sen. Britt said she has not decided who she is supporting to lead the Senate. "I've met with each candidate two times over the last two weeks. I've had these dialogues with them. I have some follow-up questions that I'll do tonight. But at the end of the day, what we do need is a leader that is going to enact President Trump's agenda," remarked Sen. Britt.

And she said that agenda needs to be enacted quickly. "I want a clear and concrete pathway to how we get back to doing these bills on time. How we get back to actually emboldening the committee and the committee process," said Sen. Britt.

Britt's decision may not come easy, but she said she always puts what's best for Alabama as her priority. "Someone who wants to do things differently, the way that we are operating is not working," explained Sen. Britt. "It is not working for the American people, it is not working for the people that I serve in the great state of Alabama."

As The Hill has reported, tomorrow's vote will be conducted using secret ballots. This is the first time since 2007 that Senate Republicans have nominated their leader using secret ballots.