Anthony Daniels endorses Shomari Figures in 2nd Congressional District race

Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, endorses Democratic 2nd Congressional District candidate Shomari Figures on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024 in Montgomery. Figures faces Republican nominee Caroleene Dobson in the November election. (Alander Rocha/Alabama Reflector)

Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, endorsed Democratic nominee Shomari Figures for Alabama's 2nd Congressional District Monday in Montgomery.

Daniels, who ran against Figures in the primary and runoff for the Democratic nomination for the district, called this election "the most consequential election in American history" and urged voters across the political spectrum to get behind Figures, saying he's the most qualified to to address issues in the district, including health care access, economic disparities, and gun violence.

"This election, more than any other election, will be a stress test of our enduring strength of our Constitution. This election will also test our faith in the public servants and institutions charged with safeguarding our free and fair elections in Alabama," Daniels said.

Figures faces Republican nominee Caroleene Dobson, an attorney, in the November election.

Figures said he was happy to have the endorsement "of such an instrumental figure here in the Democratic Party in the state of Alabama."

"We all, at the outset, understood the collective obligation and the collective effort and the collective need to get this seat into Democratic hands when we have the opportunity in November," Figures said.

Daniels said he is confident Figures can deliver federal resources to the region, pointing to Figures' experience in Washington, D.C.

The 2nd Congressional District, redrawn last year , includes Montgomery and stretches from Mobile County in the southwest corner of the state across the southern Black Belt to the Georgia border.