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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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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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Roy S. Johnson: Alabama GOP’s $5 million bet to diminish Black vote in D2 races | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

This is an opinion column. Were I a wagering man, I would have confidently bet that Alabama Republicans weren’t simply going to walk out and leave the keys to the 2nd congressional district – like an abandoned foreclosure. That they wouldn’t simply tuck and run and allow a silly ole U.S. Supreme Court ruling to […]

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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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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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