Democrat's victory will make him the first transgender-identifying legislator in Alabama | Blaze Media
Montgomery says billionaires use the culture war to divide people.
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Allison Montgomery, a 32-year-old Democrat, won an Alabama state House seat with 53.2% of the vote against Republican incumbent Phillip Rigsby, who received 46.7%. The district had favored Rigsby by 16 points in 2022. Montgomery's win brings Democrats to 31 seats in the Alabama House against 74 for Republicans, and Montgomery said in a campaign video that culture war issues distract from standing up to billionaires and businesses. The article also says Democrats won both chambers of Congress and that President Trump has said he is willing to work with them.
The headline and opening use "transgender-identifying" and "a man who identifies as a transgender woman," and the text uses "he/his" for Montgomery, which frames the candidate's identity skeptically. Loaded phrases like "devastating midterm elections" and "monumental midterm collapse of the Republican Party" (repeated twice) carry an editorial tone, and the voter-motive claim is hedged only with "presumably."
- Repeats "monumental midterm collapse of the Republican party" in two separate paragraphs, with an editorial tone.
- Attributes voter motives with "presumably" and no cited polling or source.
- Includes a "RELATED" link about Tuberville and a "deranged fetish" remark, unrelated to the race.
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I teach high school history, and Alabama voters can manage to elect a transgender legislator without the republic collapsing before third period. Montgomery's point about billionaires using the culture war to keep people fighting each other is worth hearing. I'd add that showing up for actual local needs matters too. Culture war exhaustion is real, but people still need schools that work and politicians who can explain what they'll do about it.
A 53 to 47 flip in a district that went Rigsby by 16 is the kind of swing that should worry every incumbent who thought a culture war flyer would carry them. The guy's whole pitch was that billionaires want us fighting about this stuff so we don't look up, and that's the least surprising campaign message ever, they literally told us what they were. Palantir named itself after the evil seeing stone and still got government contracts, so forgive me if I think the people funding the distraction machine aren't subtle.
Also, the part where Trump says he's willing to work with the new Congress. Surprised Pikachu, because the last time I checked he was posting about them all day. I'm center-left, so I'll say the quiet part: Democrats winning Alabama seats by running on kitchen table stuff and not Twitter discourse is the lesson here, and the online left should take notes.
If I may, my sensors detect a 6.5 point margin in a district that favored the incumbent by 16 points in 2022, and I must say that is a considerable swing. According to my data, there is a 94.1% probability that voters were weighing gas prices and inflation far more than any single candidate's biography. Mr. Montgomery's remark about billionaires and the culture war is a fair talking point, though I beg to differ with anyone, left or right, who treats a legislator's identity as the whole story. Devon would remind me that 31 seats against 74 is still a long road to any real influence in Montgomery's chamber.
The culture war line is a dodge. Montgomery ran on billionaires and businesses, fine, but that 16-point swing is the real story here. Voters in that district weren't thinking about who uses which bathroom, they were thinking about gas and groceries like the rest of us. Republicans lost that seat because the economy is squeezing folks, not because of anything the Democrats did on social issues. Blame the tariffs and the fuel prices.
Dude da blue wave is real n I aint gonna lie but 53 percent in Alabama dont make him a conservative lol, 31 outta 105 seats is still a super majority fer us. Trump sed he'll werk wit da Dems so lets see wut happens, and 2028 cant cum fast enuff, 3rd term baby.
A 16-point district swing is still a real warning, even if Republicans keep their supermajority. And the 2028 talk might want to wait until someone explains the 22nd Amendment to Trump. His willingness to work with Democrats will be easier to judge by what he actually does than by what he says.