GOP Reps. Jerry Carl, Barry Moore Face Off in Alabama Primary on Super Tuesday

Published on March 4, 2024

Thanks to redrawn congressional districts in southern Alabama, two sitting congressmen will be running against each other in a race that could effectively end one man’s time on Capitol Hill. In a Super Tuesday contest, voters in Alabama’s new 1st Congressional District will vote to choose whether they support Rep. Jerry Carl (R-Ala.) or Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.) in a Republican primary contest. Mr. Moore, who currently represents Alabama’s 2nd district, was placed into a newly redrawn first district that encompasses much of Alabama’s Gulf Coast, near Mobile, Alabama, and its southernmost counties in the so-called Wiregrass region that abuts the Florida panhandle and the western border of Georgia....