Alabama’s newest Congressman-elect was praised by MSNBC’s Joy Reid Thursday who, at the end of her show called Shomari Figures likely to be one of the “big stars” of the freshman class in 2025.
Figures, 39, a Mobile Democrat, was elected on Tuesday to serve the 2nd congressional district by defeating Republican Caroleene Dobson. He won a seat redefined last year through court-ordered redistricting and flipping a congressional seat that had been in Republican hands for the past 14 years.
Figures was interviewed by Reid during her nightly “Reid Out” show…