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Alabama

Democrat Lands’ House victory significant, but also will be hard to replicate | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MONTGOMERY — In what marked the first net gain for Democrats in the Alabama Legislature in more than 20 years, Marilyn Lands, running on reproductive rights, secured a decisive victory this week during the special election to represent House District 10 in north Alabama. Winning by nearly 25 percentage points and flipping the district blue, […]

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Why Alabama’s 2nd congressional district ‘is in play for Republicans’ after Tuesday’s primary | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

For months, the prognosticators labeled Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional district as a Democratic district, removing it from so-called “toss up” categories by noting that President Joe Biden would have won it by 12 percentage points in 2020. But Tuesday’s primary turnout illustrated that it’s a whole new ballgame. Democrats cast only 161 more votes […]

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Sarah Stewart wins Republican primary for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Sarah Stewart prevailed in Tuesday’s Republican primary for chief justice on on the state’s highest court, defeating Bryan Taylor, a former state senator and legal adviser to two governors, according to preliminary results from the Associated Press. Stewart was part of a court majority that ruled frozen embryos are considered […]

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Alabama 2024 primary updates, results: District 2 runoffs set; Barry Moore defeats Jerry Carl | #elections | #alabama

Alabama’s Super Tuesday primaries ended with an incumbent losing his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives losing his seat to another sitting Republican Congressman and set the stage for April 16 Democrat and GOP runoffs for the redrawn District 2. Rep. Jerry Carl lost his re-election bid to Rep. Barry Moore, after District 2 […]

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