Four years ago, Bill Waller Jr. forced Tate Reeves into a Republican primary runoff while running on Medicaid expansion.
by Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today October 26, 2023 Welcome to The Homestretch, a daily blog featuring the most comprehensive coverage of the 2023 Mississippi governor’s race. This page, curated by the Mississippi Today politics team, will feature the biggest storylines of the 2023 governor’s race at 7 a.m. every day between now and the Nov. 7 election. Four summers ago, Bill Waller Jr. had Tate Reeves on the ropes.
‘I think he’s more electable than Tate’: Four past GOP chairmen endorsed Waller over Reeves The reason for that was simple: a fresh, new-to-the-modern-GOP platform. Waller ran on three major issues that year that few previous Republicans had: raising the state’s lowest-in-the-nation teacher pay, improving the state’s crumbling roads and bridges, and expanding Medicaid to save sick Mississippians and struggling hospitals. And on those three issues, Reeves got absolutely blasted.
Why so many top candidates are ignoring Mississippi’s worsening hospital crisis A big solution to these problems, Presley has argued, just like Waller argued in 2019, is Medicaid expansion. As the health care crisis worsens, more Republicans than ever before support Medicaid expansion. In multiple polls conducted this year, more than 50% of Republican voters said they support expansion.
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