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Candidates › Alabama U.S. Senate race › 2025–2026
Rodney Walker
RepublicanU.S. SenateAlabama
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- Lost the Republican primaryMay 19, 2026 · 19,729 votes (4.1%) · 4 of 7 · count stopped at 98% reporting · Barry Moore and Jared Hudson advanced to the runoff
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Highways & Infrastructure
- Protecting America’s Food Supply
- Groceries and the Economy
- Term Limits
- Lower Interest Rates
- Money
- $2M raised, $2M spent, $0 cash on hand (through Jun 30, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 0.2% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 65% from Alabama
- Backed by
- GatorPAC. As the campaign lists them
17 priorities from walkerforalabama.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
Our Federal Highways and Interstates are quickly falling apart. The federal government over the past administrations have failed to fund the repaving and upgrading of our Federal Highways and Interstate systems. We have become an “as needed” or “emergency repair” culture. I want to work to appropriate money to ALDOT to unleash the largest paving and widening projects in decades. Everyone knows that all over the State that our roads are filled to maximum capacity. We must start a long-term Federal assisted plan to widen our roads and bridges while performing much needed maintenance on our existing Federal highways and Interstates. Alabama currently receives roughly $1,000,000,000 in annual federal highway funding. Alabama also is projected to receive $5,800,000,000 in federal formula highway funding over five years from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This is 32% more than Alabama’s previous funding levels from the US Government.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/infrastructure.html
As a real Alabama cattle farmer, I have lived my entire life working to feed America. We currently have 750 momma cows, 700 feeder calves, and we raise 3000 to 4000 rolls of hay per year. A smart man once said that a cattle farmer is a grass farmer. We raise grass that makes beef in which makes hamburger and steak which everyone buys at the grocery store. Our young people are being raised to believe sometimes that our food comes from the grocery store rather than from the farm. More and more people in this generation are beginning to buy beef, pork and chicken direct from the farm.
It is imperative that we educate everyone on where food comes from. Our great State raises a large amount of food that feeds America. On Sand Mountain they raise tomatoes and sweet potatoes that are shipped all over the United States. We raise chickens for both meat and eggs. In South Alabama, there are all types of vegetables grown. All across this great State there is beef cattle raised and at this time there is a new processing plant being built in South Alabama. We have farmers raising pork all across the State. We still have a few dairies that produce white milk and chocolate milk. From the tip of North Alabama to the Southern most tip of South Alabama there is agricultural crops being raised including corn, soybeans, wheat, barley, oats, and we are still a huge producer of cotton. We have all eaten food today and we are wearing clothes from products produced in Alabama. I don’t want to leave out all of the wine producers growing grapes or muscadines or the bee handlers who are raising good Alabama honey.
We can not let these men and women fail. We must make sure that we don’t import our food from other countries full of preservatives (so it can be shipped) when we can and do raise our food here. We must protect the integrity of our food supply and we must keep it safe. We can not allow foreign disease to come into our land such as foot and mouth disease from South America and Brazil. We have to fund the USDA and other inspection agencies to stop and prevent foreign disease from coming here.
Another major obstacle in agriculture that should be corrected in America as soon as possible is to repeal the Death Tax, also known as Estate Taxes. The past administrations have continued to increase the death tax to what it is now a 40% of all of the estates assets after a $13.61 million exemption per individual. We must work hard to get this down to zero. A farm pays sales tax and income tax every year that it is operating. When the patriarch passes away and for each generation that passes away after that the American government collects a death tax on all farms and estates. As your senator I will work very hard to repeal all death taxes.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/food.html
We must do everything we can to help hard-working American families. I am one of you and I know what it costs to go out to eat dinner on Friday or Saturday night. I know what it costs every day when my wife goes to the grocery store to get us food for dinner or through the drive thru at a local restaurant. We need to help all of the low to middle class working Americans put more money in their pockets and help control food prices. I will fight for all of Alabama’s working families. Our President has already taken the tax off of tips and overtime. We must continue the fight for additional tax cuts and more good paying jobs in Alabama.
I vow to you that I will fight to remove the sales tax from groceries and from prescription drugs in order to help our seniors and our low income families. I want you to keep your hard earned money in your pocket.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/groceries.html
It is my firm belief that we should establish term limits on Senators and Representatives of the United States Government. In the time of our forefathers, businesspeople would go to Washington DC and serve 2 terms in Congress. They then returned to their farm or business and allowed someone else to continue the duties of running the nation. As time has developed, having a congressional seat has become a lifetime appointment. Yes, the people must run for Senate every six years and for representative every four years. However, once they get into the seat, if they do not do anything significantly wrong, they are reelected for as long as they choose to be. As you look at TV, you will see some members of Congress 80 or 90 years old. This is just not acceptable. I vow to sponsor a bill to set term limits at two six-year terms for senators and four two-year terms for representatives at the US level. I'll also give you this promise if you elect me as your Senator, whether we can get a term limit bill passed or not, I will only serve 2 terms. That is my promise to you.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/term-limits.html
It is in the news everyday. Housing markets are slowing down. Buyers are slowing down on purchasing the housing inventory that is available. Alabama businesses are hurting. It is due to the high interest rates. We need to work hard to encourage the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates on all Americans and we need to do it soon. A new Federal Reserve Chairman will be chosen soon and Congress will need to work fast to get him or her approved so they can get to work. Keeping interest rates low will make the economy healthy and put money in Americans pockets.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/interest-rates.html
Coal production in Alabama in 2008 was 19,600,000 tons before the years of the Obama regulations took place. Our coal production was forced back to 11,100,000 tons in 2020. Today Alabama still ranks 14th nationwide in coal production. In 2024 we produced 13,365,000 tons of high quality coal. As your senator, I will hard to have some of those regulations placed on cola producers years ago removed and allow our coal producers to ramp up their production. This is job paying jobs for Alabamians. It also still remains a clean source of electrical energy production in our state as well as a huge boost for our economy.
Hydroelectric production in Alabama makes us the 5th largest producer in the United States and the 2nd largest producer in the Eastern United States. Hydroelectric is one of the State’s renewable energy resources. We have several companies in Alabama that produce hydroelectric power including Tennessee Valley Authority, Alabama Power Company, PowerSouth Energy Cooperative and Exelon Generation. Together these companies produce electric energy that is distributed throughout the southeast and as far away as California. As your Senator, I will work with each of these companies, protecting our water rights on the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers as Georgia looks to contain the water and build new dams. You need someone who understands these changes and will fight for Alabama. This will not be handled on the State level, it will be handled in the federal arena through the Corps of Engineers in Washington.
We also build new dams on the Alabama River closer to the Gulf of America in order to provide additional electricity for the new AI data centers that are now being built in Alabama.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/energy.html
We would not be here today if it was not for our family members who came before us and protected the rights and freedoms of this great nation, the United States of America. Both of my grandfathers, Theron Nunn and Hoyt Walker, fought in World War II. They both spent four years in foreign lands, getting shot at and also having to shoot back. I am privileged to have a few items which they brought home from the war that I have now been entrusted with.
My uncle, John Ray Farmer and my Dad, Edward Walker both served in the Alabama National Guard reserve until retiring, Dad being a Sergeant Major with the 1151st engineering unit at Fort McClellan. Dad has been deployed upon multiple occasions to Germany and South America while still owning and maintaining a business in Talladega, Alabama. I SUPPORT OUR VETERANS!!! If you have any doubt, read what proceeds this sentence again. We need to have Senators who support our men and women of uniform. They need to make sure their retirement is maintained, medical care is given, housing is provided for those who have given everything for us, treatment is provided for PTSD victims, and their insurance is maintained at a satisfactory level.
We are now the children of the Baby Boomers Generation. It was from 1946 to 1964. Our parents are now from 60 to 79 years old. They provided one of the greatest generations of hard working Americans that ever was. Now they are the age of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or very expensive Insurance. Now it is our turn to take care of them. As your Senator, I want to make sure the people have retirement homes, they have food to eat, power and water in their homes, and affordable insurance in their time of sickness. It is our job as the leaders to provide a good environment for those who are now the age of senior citizens. We must not forget all they have done for us.
I also want to make sure our VA Hospitals are properly funded and staffed with the best doctors and nurses. Right now, suicide is at the highest rate it has ever been among our military men and women who have served us in the past. We need to have proper mental health programs to diagnose and mitigate these situations. I give you my word, that I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/veterans.html
It has just started to come to light that a large majority of our prescription drugs used in the United States are produced in other countries. The FDA reports that's 72% of drug supply is produced overseas. This is unacceptable. 100% of our prescription drugs should be manufactured in America. This would be my number one priority as your senator. There is no quicker way to basically poison the citizens of the United States then they go straight through their prescription drugs that we take and trust each day. These are all American corporations that are having their drugs manufactured overseas. As your senator I would propose legislation that all American prescription drugs have to be manufactured on American soil.
I am also going to fight to make sure that prescription drugs have the sales tax removed from them.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/prescription-drugs.html
Our Forestland – EUDR & Southern Pine Beetle ↗ (opens walkerforalabama.com/forestland.html at this heading)
Our Forestland is a valuable part of the nation’s economy. In Alabama, we have a large portion of property that is covered by National Forests. This provides recreation to individuals and it helps steer the economic engine of the State through managed timber harvest producing lumber, paper products, fencing materials and much more. We need to make sure that foreign countries do not buy up our National Forests and the natural resources and minerals that go with them. In Alabama we have 668,000 acres covering 17 counties of National Forests.
The United States joined with the European Union as a part of the EUDR, the European Union Deforestation Regulation. This regulation was put into place to keep third world countries from mass harvesting timber land. In August 2025, President Trump through tariff negotiations had the United States listed as a “negligible source” and removed. However, all of the timber mills are still abiding by this new regulation since they ship products to the European Union and other nations. We must on day one have a new law introduced removing the United States from this regulation.
For further understanding of the new regulation….if a farm sells a piece of land for industry, homes, or other sources and then chooses to go and cut the timber off of another less valuable piece of property, they can not sell the timber from the less valuable piece of property if they desire to put that piece back into agricultural service, including crop land or pastureland. The new property can be put back into trees, houses, industrial land or more. This is a corrupt piece of legislation and the EU has no business telling American’s what we can do with our land!
All across the Southeast we also have a silent destroyer that is slowly devastating our pine timberland. It is the Southern Pipe Beetle. In 2024 there was a major outbreak in Alabama which resulted in a reported 12,000 infestation spots covering 25,000 acres. I believe this number has grown dramatically since the report as the beetle continue to spread rapidly. Although this may not seem like a big issue to some, this is devastating to the timber landowners and to the National Forests. Some landowners may just be a small family land all the way up to huge corporations. This can not be stopped by the Alabama Forestry Commission or other States Forestry Organizations. As your Senator, I will work with research and development companies to produce an insecticide to spray and terminate the pine beetle. I will also work with the Department of Agriculture to contract spray forests of Alabama to rid this killer just as the boll weevil had to be eradicated in Alabama between 1987 and 1995. This is a serious issue that we must get under control before it destroys the pine timber in Alabama and across the Southeast.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/forestland.html
Currently foreign countries own 45.85 million acres of American Farmland with that number growing more each day. Currently federal law does not impose any restrictions on the amount of private US Agricultural land that can be owned by foreigners, including terrorist nations like China and Iran, however American citizens are restricted from owning land in foreign countries like China. China currently owns over 12.5 million acres of American farmland.
In Alabama 2,198,000 acres of agricultural land is owned by foreign nations. This can be fact checked through the USDA website.
On March 14, 2025, Congressman Brandon Gill (TX-26) introduced the Land and National Defense Act, which would ban China and Iran from buying American Farmland. As your Senator, I would fight hard to see this bill pass and others like it. We must protect our Farmland and our Food Supply from Foreign Nations!!
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/farmland.html
I strongly believe in the right to bear arms for all law abiding citizens. I am personally a gun toting American, permitted and trained in many different aspects on how to properly tote a weapon and use it. I also am a hunter and a farmer. I enjoy passing along to young people the tradition of hunting and properly using a weapon. As your senator I will continue to fight for you as many that have become before me have done. All of this being said I am strongly opposed to criminals and non law abiding citizens the right to bear arms. I believe when you choose to become a criminal you lose your right to bear arms from that point.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/2nd-ammendment.html
Birthright Citizenship & Immigration ↗ (opens walkerforalabama.com/birthright-citizenship.html at this heading)
The 14th amendment Section 1 of the United States constitution states “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the Privileges or Immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, our property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdictions the equal protection of the laws”.
As normal in the media, things are twisted into a way that sells. If we take the executive order as it is written, we will see that it is not directed at any children born in the United States legally. We would also see that the order is completely aimed at the illegal immigrants who walked across the border by the thousands in the Biden administration. It is written to prevent those who came here illegally from quickly having children and then claiming parental citizenship in order to take care of the children.
The executive order states two different situations where a person is no longer a U.S. citizen at birth:
When the mother was unlawfully present in the U.S. and the father was neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident when the person was born.
When the mother was in the U.S. in temporary status, such as a student visa, work visa, tourist visa or under the Visa Waiver Program, and the father was neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident when the person was born.
The executive order states that these provisions are only effective for people born 30 days or more after the date of the order; it would have only applied to children born beginning February 19, 2025 had it not been blocked by the US Supreme Court.
This order has nothing to do with the people who are here now, who were born and raised here, or who are prominent tax-paying members of our society today.
I am a firm believer that we need to make sure our borders are CLOSED, just as you can not legally walk into Canada, Mexico or another other country in the world, you should not be able to walk into America. I am a firm believer that all of the criminals, thieves, murderers and rapist that were turned out of prisons in other countries, who walked across our borders during the Biden Administration, should be rounded up and sent back to the country of their citizenship where they belong.
I also believe in finding and providing solutions. The last time we had a major change to our immigration system was in 1985 under the Reagan Administration. I believe we need to make sure every person that is in America under a work VISA, H2A Program, H1B Program, or any other permit which allows people to come to America and work or study should have a Taxpayer Identificiation Number. Not a fake ID Number but a real TID where they must pay and file tax returns just like every American here working and keeping America moving. I believe that we are creating more and more jobs everyday as President Trump works hard to bring manufacturing back to the United States. But we have to have men and women to do those jobs as well as so many of the “bad” jobs. See, I can promise you that nobody wants to pick tomatoes in the field, nobody wants to pick up chickens in a poultry house, nobody wants to work at the food processing plant, and not many people desire to get in a muddy ditch and shovel dirt. Visa workers are doing those jobs that nobody else wants to do, and quite frankly we need them to keep doing those jobs in order to Make America and Alabama Great Again!!!
I believe the Social Security Office should be combined with Immigration Offices. We have Social Security Offices in every county or region in every State in America. Those offices have desks, telephones, computers, and staff. They need to become Taxpayer Identification Offices serving all of the people. I know it is extremely hard to go through all of the red tape for H2A and other programs. We need to streamline this process so people could apply to work in America, receive their VISA or other documents and report to the TID Office immediately, where they would be given a number and become taxpayers like the rest of us. I DID NOT SAY THIS WOULD PROVIDE CITIZENSHIP OR VOTING RIGHTS. There is a pathway in place for citizenship that millions of people have followed through the years.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · walkerforalabama.com/birthright-citizenship.html