That’s not really a good thing. I think Brooks is electable but it will be a far tougher race than Griffith-anyone else would have been.
Brooks is not really well known outside of Huntsville and Raby could concievably run against a certain neighborhood in Huntsville that is viewed as snotty (and a base of Brooks support) in the moral rural, still Dixiecrat areas of the district like Jackson, the Shoals and Lawrence.
Dems aren’t going to seriously contest AL-5.