Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s longshot Republican opponent in the governor’s race tries to poke fun at the former Auburn football coach in a new campaign video that mimics a news report.

“Breaking news, Alabama,” Ken McFeeters says in the video, posted on Rumble.

“Tommy Tuberville was absolutely destroyed today in, ‘Is Tommy smarter than a 10-year-old?’”

McFeeters, the only other Republican in the race, sets up the first question with a clip of Tuberville’s botched reference to the three branches of government the senator made in an interview in 2020.

You can watch the video here

“You know, our government wasn’t set up for one group to have all three of branches of government,” Tuberville said.

“It wasn’t set up that way, our three branches, the House, the Senate and executive.”

“Sadly, Tuberville, our senator, was only able to name one of the three branches of government,” McFeeters says.

“So kids, the first question, what are the three branches of government?”

The girl and boy contestants nail the answer – “Executive, judicial, legislative.”

McFeeters lives in Pelham and runs an insurance company he started with his brother in 1981. He is a past president of the Mid-Alabama Republican Club and ran for Congress last year.

McFeeters announced he was running for governor in June, about a week after Tuberville launched his campaign.

McFeeters’ second question to the kids is from an interview with Tuberville in March about college campus protests sparked by Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza.

“When it comes to protesters, we’ve got to make sure we treat all of them the same,” Tuberville said. “Send ‘em to jail. Free speech is great. But hateful, hate free speech is not what we need in these universities.”

Tuberville does not understand free speech rights, McFeeters says.

“What amendment to our constitution is Tuberville missing here?” McFeeters asks the kids.

“The First Amendment, Mr. Ken.”

The last question follows an excerpt from a promotional video Tuberville did for ESPN in 2017 when he joined the network after retiring from coaching.

Tuberville spoke then from his home in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.

The video has been used to try to undermine Tuberville’s assertion that he fulfills the seven-year residency requirement to be Alabama’s governor.

“Sadly, Tuberville is confused on where he lives and thinks Florida is in Alabama,” McFeeters says.

He asks the kids where they live.

“Alabama,” they say.

Tuberville says he has lived in Alabama most of the last 25 years. He said the state Democratic party’s claim that it will challenge his residency will be a waste of time.

The new video is not the first time McFeeters has tried humor in a campaign against a heavily favored opponent.

McFeeters challenged U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Hoover, in the Republican primary for the 6th District last year.

During that race, McFeeters posted an AI-generated video that mimicked a Zoom call with President Trump praising McFeeters and calling Palmer a “weasel” and a “backstabbing worm.”

At the time, Palmer called the video “a desperate attempt by a candidate that has nothing to offer in this race.”

McFeeters said he did not expect anyone to take the ad seriously.

“Anyone who watched that would know it was tongue-in-cheek,” McFeeters said. “It was not real. It was done with a really low-quality AI that cost $14 or maybe $15.

“It was to use humor to illustrate a point. No one without an axe to grind would have considered that serious.”

Palmer won the race.

McFeeters finished third in the primary with 6% of the vote.

The primary is May 19, 2026.