Watch: Alabama primary election results
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Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures will face a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump in his fight for reelection to an Alabama congressional seat the GOP redrew as part of a larger effort to help the party keep control of the U.S. House.
He will be running against state Rep. Rhett Marques, who won the GOP nomination for the 2nd Congressional District in Tuesday's special primary election. Figures was unopposed.
The district is one of several Democratic-leaning districts across the South that were reshaped to Republican advantage in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that severely weakened the Voting Rights Act. Democrat Terri Sewell, Alabama’s other Black representative, was unopposed in her primary and is favored to win reelection in her slightly redrawn 7th Congressional District seat in the fall, when she will face educator Ammie Akin, who won the GOP primary.
Todd and Cindy talk about the primary in this segment of the Black Belt Newscast.
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