Shomari Figures

Figures and Dobson are in a heated battle for a redrawn Alabama House district

Democrat Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, faces Republican Caroleene Dobson, an attorney and political newcomer, in the race for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District.

Alabama’s redrawn US House map spurs primary runoffs and ousts an incumbent on Super Tuesday

Alabama voters shook up the state’s congressional delegation Tuesday, throwing out one Republican incumbent and sending four candidates to runoffs in a district redrawn by a federal court to give Black voters greater opportunity to elect a representative of their choice.