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How a Democrat Flipped a Seat in Alabama

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Democrat Marilyn Lands will be sworn in to the Alabama House of Representatives this week, having won a special election in the deep-red state by 25 points. How did Lands do it—and what can the national Democrats learn from her victory? Guest: Marilyn Lands, Alabama lawmaker who won a special election for the state’s House of Representatives. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Maryland Lands has been involved in Alabama politics for a whole lot of years.

0:42.0

Over 20, I'd say.

0:45.0

Things have changed since she started out.

0:49.0

Back then, Democrats were running the state legislature, the state's deep red now, and local elections were so ad hoc that when her neighbor decided to run for office, Marilyn was like, sure, I'll run your campaign for you.

1:03.4

Her neighbor was a Republican. She was a Democrat but it didn't matter. She liked the guy

1:08.7

his name was Mike Ball which was great for PR stuff. All our signs were baseballs and we really played with that theme.

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We have Mike Ball cookies.

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I have a wonderful photo of my son who's about four years old I guess at the time with you know a huge

1:26.8

Mikeball baseball cookie it was really kind of just a lard I'm curious as you were running that campaign, how did you

1:36.6

and he and voters talk about an issue like abortion? Like did you talk about it? No we didn't you know at that time we had

1:48.1

Roe versus White we had that for a long time so it just really didn't come up back then.

1:55.8

CNN is now projecting that the Democrat, Maryland Lands, is going to win this special election

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