Shomari Figures claimed victory Tuesday night, in the race for Alabama’s newly drawn second congressional district.Figures wins Alabama’s redrawn 2nd Congressional DistrictFigures, who went up against Republican Caroleene Dobson,

Shomari Figures, a former aide to Attorney General Merrick Garland, is projected to win his House race in Alabama’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. His victory gives Democrats a rare pickup opportunity in a ruby-red state that former President Trump won by 25 points in 2020.

The victory gives the national Democratic Party a rare flip of a congressional seat, even if most pundits for months had anticipated a Democratic lawmaker seizing control of it.

Democratic nominee Shomari Figures won election Tuesday in Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District in a race that could help shape the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Associated Press called the race at 10:55 p.

Republican Caroleene Dobson has conceded the race for Alabama's newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District. Autauga County residents voted down a ballot measure to increase property taxes that would have gone toward education funding in the county.

Shomari Figures won an Alabama congressional seat in a district that was redrawn last year after the Supreme Court weighed in on the key redistricting case. The nation’s highest court ordered the state to redraw its 2nd Congressional District,