Shomari Figures

A national Republican organizing group is putting more resources behind an effort to flip the congressional seat held by Alabama Democrat Rep. Shomari Figures.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has expanded its list of seats it wants to flip after a series of state legislatures, including Alabama, redrew congressional maps.

“Since coming to Congress, Democrat Shomari Figures has voted against Alabama values,” committee spokesman Reilly Richardson said Monday.

Richardson claimed Figures supports Democrats’ efforts to push their “extreme agenda of high taxes, open borders, and men competing in women’s sports.”

The Democratic National Campaign Committee, meanwhile, has pledged to send resources to help Figures.

“Cynical efforts to racially gerrymander Shomari out of his seat and silence the voice of the people of Alabama will be rejected by voters in November, and I look forward to welcoming Shomari back to Congress,” U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Washington, said.

Figures was first elected to Congress in 2024.

Republicans will need to vote in a special primary Aug. 11 to choose their candidate for the 2nd Congressional District.

Hampton Harris, Christian Horn, Rhett Marques, David Matthews, Joshua McKee, and James Richardson are running for the seat. Marques, a state lawmaker, has been endorsed by President Donald Trump.

Alabama has seven congressional districts.

In the past decade, the 1st and 2nd districts have been redrawn several times.

One effort came after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Alabama to have two majority-minority districts (resulting in the 2nd Congressional District that Figures won in 2024). The second effort, in 2026, came after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais narrowed the Voting Rights Act’s protections for majority-minority districts.

Republicans have a working majority of 219 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives against the Democrats’ 212 seats.