Alabama 2nd Congressional District candidate former Sen. Dick Brewbaker, R-Pike Road, seen at the Alabama 2nd Congressional District Candidate Forum in Montgomery on Feb. 15, 2023. (Alander Rocha/Alabama Reflector)
Immigration was front and center at forum in Montgomery Thursday for Republican candidates in Alabama’s 2 nd Congressional District.
Candidates at the forum hosted at the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association also said, along with Alabama Republican Party Chair John Wahl, who introduced the candidates, that it’s important the party keeps the seat and maintains a majority in Congress.
“This district was designed by a federal court to be a Democrat district, and if Republicans are going to hold it, if we’re going to win, it’s going to take all hands on deck,” Wahl said before the candidates spoke.
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A federal court in 2022 ordered the Alabama Legislature to draw new congressional districts, ruling that a previous map unconstitutionally packed Black voters into a single district. The Alabama Legislature approved a new map last summer that the federal court said did not address their concerns and ordered a third party to draw a map for the state.