CLEVELAND, Miss. -- Jim Hood, the Mississippi state attorney general, is a ruddy-faced man with a deep drawl and a vintage country-music hairdo -- an anti-abortion, deer-hunting Baptist from the northeast Mississippi hill country. He is also a Democratic candidate for governor.On a sweltering Tuesday
CLEVELAND, Miss. — Jim Hood, the Mississippi state attorney general, is a ruddy-faced man with a deep drawl and a vintage country-music hairdo — an anti-abortion, deer-hunting Baptist from the northeast Mississippi hill country. He is also a Democratic candidate for governor.
This year’s three elections for governor are all in states — Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky — that President Donald Trump won easily in 2016. And in all three, the Democratic candidate is unusually competitive. But races for governor can be unpredictable, often turning as much on personalities and local matters as tribal and political alliances. Two of the most popular governors in the country are Republicans in the navy blue redoubts of Massachusetts and Maryland.
In Louisiana, Edwards, an even-keeled and notably nonspicy flavor of Louisiana politician, has benefited from a little proximity to gridiron glamour, appearing in a video with New Orleans Saints star Drew Brees, and at a fundraiser with the beloved Louisiana State University football coach Ed Orgeron. After a number of higher-profile Republicans chose not to challenge him, Edwards now finds himself facing two Republican contenders, Rep.
“I make sure we have a good relationship with the folks in Washington, including the president,” he said. “I’ve been there to visit with him nine times over the course of the last three years.” The attorney general also boasts of the $3 billion he delivered to taxpayers by going after “big insurance and scam artists.” Indeed, as Hood toured the Delta on Tuesday, he mixed country-boy licks with an old-school populist tune.
“I voted for Bevin,” said Mary Brewer, a retiree who was eating lunch on a recent afternoon in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. “Then he started talking all this crap about the teachers.”
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