BIRMINGHAM — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey easily won a second full term Tuesday against Democrat Yolanda Flowers, the first Black woman to win a major party’s gubernatorial nomination in the
JAY REEVES, Associated Press state, after surviving both a health scare and multiple Republican challengers in the primary.
People are also reading… Libertarian Jimmy Blake, a former Birmingham City Council member, also was on the ballot. Following the primary, Ivey — who was diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer in 2019 and later said the disease was gone — was faced with questions about her health after she disappeared from public view for almost three weeks during the summer. She refused to say whether she underwent any medical treatment.
"Folks, there’s no doubt that the best is yet to come because we all know there’s no step too high for a high stepper,” said Ivey, repeating a campaign mantra.
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