Hey everyone, Sarah Longwell here, publisher of the bulwark. And I am joined by an old buddy of mine,

Kyle Sweetser, who is running for Senate in Alabama as a Democrat. But I know Kyle, because back in our

Republican voters against Trump days, you were somebody who had voted for Trump, who then broke hard with him, began to speak out

against him. You spoke at the Democratic National Convention. You just were a vocal opponent.

And here you are now running as a Democrat for Senate. You're in a primary where it looks like

not a lot of polling in the Democratic primary in

Alabama. Maybe you can tell us where you are, but I see Cal she has you as an 81% chance of winning.

So, Kyle, why you just introduce yourself to the audience and talk a little bit about your journey?

How did you go from a guy who voted for Trump twice, business guy,

who then now finds yourself running for Senate in Alabama as a Democrat?

Hey, thanks for having me on. It's great to see you again. I know years ago back at a

principal's first with Governor Larry Hogan, you asked me if I planned on running for office.

And that was the first time

someone really asked me that. So interesting, because now we're here. I'm a former Republican

voter. I've voted Republican my whole life up into the point where I flipped. And, you know,

we've got a construction background. I've worked hard my whole life.

I was pretty much born into construction.

And when the Deepwater Horizon blew, I went out to work during the oil spill, getting after it,

keeping the oil off of our beaches.

So needless to say, I have a lot different background than most people in Washington, D.C.

Start my own business in 2016, going in out of people's houses, working on garage doors,

waking up at 4 o'clock in the morning so other people could get out of their garage to go to work.

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