Facing an uphill battle running as a Democrat in deep-red Alabama, first-time U.S. Senate candidate Kyle Sweetser is focused on courting the middle on issues like affordability and health care.

After voting for President Donald Trump twice in 2016 and 2020, the Mobile businessman said he slowly felt estranged from the Republican Party he had spent his life supporting.

An injury in 2021 left him with ample time to “educate” himself on how Republicans under Trump began to “abandon their constituents, abandon the state of Alabama, (and) abandon our country,” and that led him to speak out against the party he was once loyal to and landed him a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in 2024.

“We need to meet people where they’re at,” Sweetser told Alabama Daily News while on a t

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