Newly elected Alabama state Rep. Marilyn Lands claimed that her recent victory in a special election on Tuesday is a harbinger of things to come in her state in future elections.
Lands, a Democrat who ran her campaign on in vitro fertilization protections and openly talked about having an abortion, said she hopes her victory is a starting point to break the Republican majority in the state legislature.
“It gives me a lot of hope for this state in 2026,” Lands told the Daily Beast. “I hope that this will be the start of us winning some more seats in 2026 and really beginning to break that [Republican] super majority.”
Marilyn Lands, a Democrat who ran a campaign centered on reproductive rights, is photographed on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. ( Marilyn Lands via AP)
Lands’s historic victory flipped a seat in the deep red state after a special election was triggered when former state Rep. David Cole pleaded guilty to felony voter fraud in August. Lands won by 25 percentage points over Republican Teddy Powell.
The newly elected state lawmaker said she thinks that her victory will bring the discussion of IVF protections to the national st …