Although Democrats haven’t won a governor’s race in the Mississippi since 1999, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves's relatively narrow margin of victory in 2019 has some Democrats believing Presley has a good chance in years for a high-profile statewide win.
meant to dilute the Black vote was overturned through a ballot initiative in 2020. Under the new law, the top two vote-getters in the race for governor will head to a runoff if neither wins an outright majority in the first election.
“I've seen people who when I announced were probably upset that I was a Democrat running for governor,” Presley said. “And we talk, and they realize, ‘You know what, he ain't got three horns coming out of his head, and he's just he's the guy we've always known.’ You don't do that by sitting home and hoping people will come around.”
“Pro-life to me is not just on the issue of abortion,” Presley said. “I believe that pro-life also means pro-hospital, pro-emergency room, pro-ambulance, pro-doctor, pro-nurse. … It means making sure we expand Medicaid.”Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, at a news briefing on April 19 at a state office building in Jackson.
Bordeaux noted that Presley does not have a high profile and touted the grassroots organization that the GOP has built up across the state.
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