Updated: Aug. 18, 2024, 9:08 a.m.
Donald Trump won Alabama by a 27-point margin in the 2016 presidential election, and then came back with a 25-point win in the state during the 2020 contest.
They were both smashing victories. Alabama also remains a reliably red state this fall, where Trump is expected to easily win again.
But political observers are starting to wonder if it’s in Alabama where the former president’s overall political hopes might unravel.
In an irony not lost to observers, the Alabama State Supreme Court’s Feb. 16 ruling upending in vitro fertilization in Alabama that continues to penetrate wide-ranging political debates over reproductive health care, could prove to be the political poison of the state’s favorite politician.
