The chairman of the Alabama State GOP said Friday that the state political party “doesn’t care” about whose name is on the deed to the home of U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville.

John Wahl, chairman of the state party since 2021, said a Washington Post story questioning whether Tuberville lives in Alabama or Florida was a “twisted and manufactured liberal attack.”

Wahl’s statement comes one day after the story detailed how Tuberville, the senior U.S. Senator from Alabama, did not own property in the state after selling parcels in Macon and Tallapoosa counties for $1.4 million.

A spokesman for the senator maintained that Tuberville’s primary residence is an Auburn house owned by his wife, Suzanne, and son, Tucker, according to the Post report published Thursday. The article stated that campaign finance documents and property records suggested that Tuberville’s main home is in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.

“The Alabama Republican Party doesn’t care whether the deed to Senator Tuberville’s residence is in his or his wife’s name,” Wahl said in a statement to AL.com. “Having one’s spouse’s name on a residence is hardly unusual.”

The sale of the Alabama properties were notarized by a Santa Rosa Beach resident, which the Post reported suggested the senator was in Florida when the transaction went through on July 14. The news report went on to say that Suzanne Tuberville is a licensed real estate agent in Florida and has worked for a Santa Rosa Beach real estate firm since the start of the year. She does not have an Alabama real estate license, according to the Post.

Campaign finance reports showed Tuberville racked up monthly expenses for travel to Santa Rosa Beach while Alabama travel was not as extensive, according to the story.

Wahl called the piece a “liberal attack.”

“Quite honestly, this seems like a twisted and manufactured liberal attack targeting a U.S. Senator who has been standing against the Biden Administration and its leftist policies,” Wahl said. “My recommendation to the liberal D.C. press? Stop making a mountain out of a molehill. You’re embarrassing yourselves.”

It’s not the first time questions surfaced over Tuberville’s residency. During the 2020 Senate campaign, former Republican U.S. Attorney General and Sen. Jeff Sessions and his campaign took aim at the former Auburn head football coach’s residency and dubbed him “Florida man.”

The Santa Rosa Beach house was the subject of the campaign ads. Built in 1997, it had a market value at around $2.76 million, according to Walton County, Florida, property records in 2020. The couple purchased the home in July 2012, for $750,000. They declared a homestead exemption on the property in 2018, but not in 2019 or in any prior year.

The Sessions campaign in 2020, in a campaign ad, showed an interview of Tuberville speaking into a camera at the Santa Rosa Beach property talking about how “after 40 years of coaching football, I hung up my whistle and moved to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, with the white sand and the blue water. What a great place to live.”

A narrator interjects, “Florida? Not Alabama.”

The next image showed Tuberville, dressed in camouflage and holding a rifle, vowing to become the “next U.S. senator from the state of Alabama.”

The narrator says, “What? No you’re not.”

Tuberville, in interviews in 2019, confirmed his voting registration was in Florida in 2018. His campaign, however, pointed out that the former Auburn University head football coach had been paying property taxes in Alabama dating back to the Auburn coaching days.

He went on to easily defeat Sessions and the rest of the GOP field during the 2020 GOP primary, before handily defeating Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Doug Jones during the general election.