Figures faces Republican Caroleene Dobson of Montgomery in the Nov. 5 general election in the redrawn district.
Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, who lost to Shomari Figures of Mobile in a runoff for the Democratic nomination in Alabama’s redrawn 2nd Congressional District, today endorsed Figures for the seat.
Figures is a lawyer who grew up in Mobile. He served as deputy chief of staff and counselor to Attorney General Merrick Garland in the Justice Department. He is the son of longtime state Sen. Vivian Davis Figures of Mobile and Michael Figures, who served 18 years as a state senator until his death in 1996.
The Black voting age population in the district is 49%. Analyses in the federal court case showed Black-preferred candidates, Democrats, received more votes than their opponents in 16 of 17 recent elections by an average margin of 10 percentage points. “And I want to be clear at the outset that Mr. Daniels and I, as did every other candidate in this race, there’s never been any issues of support,” Figures said. “We all, at the outset, understood the collective obligation and the collective effort and the collective need to get this seat into Democratic hands when we had the opportunity in November.”
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