Have been following this a little...odds are that the Incumbent Republican squeaks it out...but this cousin of The King, Elvis, is close to pulling off the upset of the century
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Republicans may be less than a week from a nightmare in Mississippi, where Democrat Brandon Presley's chances of flipping the governorship remain high ahead of Election Day.
Governor Tate Reeves continues to be in an unexpectedly tight rice against Presley, who is gunning to be the first Democratic governor in the conservative stronghold in two decades.
The most recent poll, released by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) last month, shows the two men neck-and-neck, with Reeves holding a one-point advantage, 46 percent to 45 percent. Two polls from August and September show the governor with a slightly bigger lead of 11 points and 8 points, respectively.
Presley, the second cousin of music legend Elvis Presley, has pulled off an incredible fundraising effort, outraising Reeves by more than $5 million in the 2023 election cycle. Much of that has been with the help of the DGA, which has pumped a historic $3.75 million into Presley's campaign, the largest investment from a single group affiliated with the national Democratic Party, according to Mississippi Today.
At the same time, Reeves, who faced troubling approval numbers earlier this year, has been caught up in a fraud scandal over the state's misspending of welfare funds during his time as lieutenant governor.
Reeves, who has denied any wrongdoing, is overseeing the state's lawsuit against more than two dozen businesses or people to recover more than $20 million of the roughly $77 million that was misspent between 2016 and 2019. Last month, one of the defendants sued Reeves, accusing him of illegally controlling the lawsuit to protect his political allies.
The scandal was one of Presley's big talking points at Wednesday's heated debate, the only one in the campaign.
"The truth is, you're a bought-and-paid-for politician, and you know it, and the people of Mississippi know it....He is the poster child of this broken, corrupt system," Presley said on stage.
Republicans may be days away from their nightmare coming true
If Brandon Pressley defeats incumbent Tate Reeves, he'd be Mississippi's first Democratic governor in 20 years.
www.newsweek.com
Republicans may be less than a week from a nightmare in Mississippi, where Democrat Brandon Presley's chances of flipping the governorship remain high ahead of Election Day.
Governor Tate Reeves continues to be in an unexpectedly tight rice against Presley, who is gunning to be the first Democratic governor in the conservative stronghold in two decades.
The most recent poll, released by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) last month, shows the two men neck-and-neck, with Reeves holding a one-point advantage, 46 percent to 45 percent. Two polls from August and September show the governor with a slightly bigger lead of 11 points and 8 points, respectively.
Presley, the second cousin of music legend Elvis Presley, has pulled off an incredible fundraising effort, outraising Reeves by more than $5 million in the 2023 election cycle. Much of that has been with the help of the DGA, which has pumped a historic $3.75 million into Presley's campaign, the largest investment from a single group affiliated with the national Democratic Party, according to Mississippi Today.
At the same time, Reeves, who faced troubling approval numbers earlier this year, has been caught up in a fraud scandal over the state's misspending of welfare funds during his time as lieutenant governor.
Reeves, who has denied any wrongdoing, is overseeing the state's lawsuit against more than two dozen businesses or people to recover more than $20 million of the roughly $77 million that was misspent between 2016 and 2019. Last month, one of the defendants sued Reeves, accusing him of illegally controlling the lawsuit to protect his political allies.
The scandal was one of Presley's big talking points at Wednesday's heated debate, the only one in the campaign.
"The truth is, you're a bought-and-paid-for politician, and you know it, and the people of Mississippi know it....He is the poster child of this broken, corrupt system," Presley said on stage.
