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Jones has an opening—and The V asks: Will they debate?

This week, The V examines a tightening governor’s race, prison accountability, SNAP pressures and Alabama’s deepening maternity care divide across Alabama.

This week on “The Voice of Alabama Politics,” a new poll gives Doug Jones an opening against Tommy Tuberville—and raises a bigger question: Will the candidates finally debate?

Bill Britt, Susan Britt and Josh Moon also examine Alabama’s mounting prison costs and accountability problems, competing proposals to review the corrections system, looming changes to SNAP and the state’s persistent maternity care crisis.

Watch this week’s “The V” for the analysis behind the numbers—and what these developing issues could mean for Alabama.

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