Alabama Congress primary: Barry Moore defeats Rep. Jerry Carl in AL-01 GOP race
Rep. Barry Moore has defeated Rep. Jerry Carl in a rare incumbent-vs.-incumbent Republican primary spurred by a Supreme Court decision forcing Alabama to adopt redrawn congressional districts.
Rep. Barry Moore has defeated Rep. Jerry Carl in a rare incumbent-vs.-incumbent Republican primary spurred by a Supreme Court decision forcing Alabama to adopt redrawn congressional districts, NBC News projects.
Carl becomes the first House lawmaker seeking re-election to lose their primary in the 2024 cycle.
Moore’s Super Tuesday victory is a win for the House Freedom Caucus — the band of far-right, anti-establishment rabble rousers that frequently clashes with GOP leadership and whose super PAC backed Moore. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a former Freedom Caucus member and a top Donald Trump ally on Capitol Hill, campaigned alongside Moore over the weekend in Alabama, arguing that Moore was more of a Trump loyalist than Carl.
“Barry Moore is President Trump’s man in Washington and has been from the very beginning. His entire family has and he has never wavered,” Greene said at a campaign stop before the election.
Carl, a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee and the Republican Study Committee, is more closely aligned with the business wing of the party.
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