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Alabama

What Marilyn Lands’ special election win means for Alabama, and Republican politics | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Marilyn Lands’ victory in an Alabama statehouse race in North Alabama on Tuesday followed a similar script for Alabama Democrats on the rare occasions they topple a Republican within the ruby red state. That includes winning a special election, receiving a boost from national media exposure, and generating support from Republicans. It happened for Doug […]

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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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Super Tuesday primary 2024 in Alabama: Election results, who won? Did Amendment 1 pass? | #elections | #alabama

Alabama voters headed to the polls as part of Super Tuesday to select party nominees for president all the way down ballot to county elected positions. The top of the ballot was uncompetitive, with President Biden and former President Donald Trump easily defeating their respective challengers: Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota for Biden and ex-South […]

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J. Elbert Peters, former Alabama GOP chairman and longtime fixture of Huntsville politics, dies | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

J. Elbert Peters, a longtime fixture of Huntsville politics who chaired the Alabama Republican Party for part of the 1990s, died Thursday, his grandson, David Wisdom, announced. Peters was 90. “We are proud of the life my grandfather lived, we are thankful for the influence he has had in our lives, and we are assured […]

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