"Thank you! God Bless you! Roll Tide! Let's go win this thing!"
Those were the parting words Alabama second congressional district candidate Shomari Figures offered Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention.
His speech was just over two minutes, and his message was clear: He is running for office, Alabama is home to civil rights icons and milestones, and everyone needs to get out and vote this November.
"Well, America, it's time we pop out and vote," he said. "It's time we pop out from California to Alabama and all across America, and we show them that we are not going back."
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— Figures for Congress (@ShomariFigures) August 23, 2024
In response, Figures' Republican opponent, Caroleene Dobson, said Figures, like Vice President Kamala Harris, has not offered any solutions to problems that Democrats have created for 12 of the last 16 years in the White House.
"Just like Kamala Harris, we still don't really know what her policies are beyond price controls, beyond increasing taxation, continuing reckless government spending – all of which would continue to kill opportunities for American families and certainly Alabama families in the second congressional district," she told "Fox & Friends First" on Friday morning.
Dobson said Figures' resume in Washington, D.C. doesn't play well in Alabama.
"It just shows that my opponent is truly out of touch because, you know, I'm running to fight for Alabama families, and so I live in Alabama," she said. "My husband and I are raising our girls in Alabama, and I've spent every day of this campaign in Alabama's second congressional district talking to voters."
"And whether they're Republican or they're Democrat, they're realizing that the policies of the Biden-Harris- Figures administration have failed us," the Beatrice native said. "They've wrecked our economy. They've flung open our borders. They've made our communities less safe. This district doesn't want a far-left progressive. They don't want a Washington insider to maintain the status quo."
Although Figures began his speech with "Hello, sweet home Alabama," the Dobson campaign and Figures' opponent in the primary—House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels (D-Huntsville)—have maintained that Figures has been living in Washington, D.C. for years and only came back to take the second congressional district seat.
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