Alabama Republicans celebrate victory in D.C.

January 19, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. - Alabama Republicans were in the nation's capital in force to celebrate the triumphal return of President Donald J. Trump (R) to the White House. While there are three official inauguration balls on Monday night celebrating Trump's return, Alabama Republicans joined their southern Republican allies in their own celebration – the Southern States Ball at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on Pennsylvania Avenue.

The Alabama Gazette was represented at the $250 per ticket event by lead reporter and content manager Brandon Moseley and GOP columnist former state Representative Perry O. Hooper Jr (R-Montgomery).

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) told the crowd, "Our national nightmare is almost over," – referring to the Biden administration, which even many Democrats admit was in many ways a failed presidency.

U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) said that she is eager to get to work for the American people.

With Republicans in control of the White House, the U.S. Senate, and a majority (albeit a tiny one) in the U.S. House of Representatives the GOP is optimistic that they can burst out of this legislative stalemate that has characterized the last two years with Republicans controlling the House, Democrats in control of the Senate, and an increasingly incapable Joseph Biden occupying the White House.

Britt said that she is the only Republican mother of school age children in the Senate; but that she would soon by joined by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody who Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will appoint to the Senate once Senator Marco Rubio is confirmed as Trump's Secretary of State.

Britt said that her and Moody would be "double trouble" for Democrats in the Senate.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) told the crowd that she believes in President Trump as much as she did eight years ago when she went to work for him during his first administration.

Sanders is the youngest governor in the country.

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears (R) who is the running for Governor told the crowd that her candidacy exposes the lie that Republicans don't like Blacks and don't like women.

Virginia is the only southern state that supported Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris; but Trump only lost by 224,221 votes (51.8% to 46.6%) and Republican governor Glenn Youngkin has been very popular.

Miss America Abbie Stockard (an Auburn nursing student and former Miss Alabama) said that she has made $89,000 in scholarship money off her win. Stockard said that she wants to focus the year on cystic fibrosis – a fatal genetic disorder that afflicts 40,000 Americans. Stockard lives in Vestavia Hills.

An all-star group of performers entertained the crowd all night. The event ended with "God Bless the USA" performed by iconic country music superstar Lee Greenwood.

Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl said that the event was a great success.

Wahl was recently re-elected as Republican Party National Vice-Chair representing the Southern Region.

The event was sponsored by the Poarch band of Creek Indians (PCI), Alabama Power, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Lockheed Martin, and Norfolk-Southern.

PCI Tribal Chair and CEO Stephanie Bryan told the crowd that it was great to be in Washington to celebrate victory.

President Trump will begin his second term on September 20. The event which was to have been outside and attended by tens of thousands has moved inside the Capitol Building due to anticipated cold temperatures. Trump supporters will be able to watch the events live at a nearby arena. President Trump will attend that event in person following his swearing in.

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