Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves leads Democratic opponent Brandon Presley heading into next week's election, though the Presley team is hoping for an upset.
At a hotel overlooking the Mississippi River in Natchez, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Brandon Presley told a few dozen Black and white supporters that Mississippi's Republican governor, Tate Reeves, is trying to hold onto money and power by sowing racial division. 'They’re sitting up in that governor’s mansion tonight, I bet you money, tinkling their little glasses, smoking their cigars,' Presley said, imitating someone holding a tumbler of whiskey.
Under the old method, a gubernatorial candidate had to win a majority of the statewide popular vote and prevail in a majority of the 122 state House districts. Without both, the race would be decided by the Mississippi House. That process was written in 1890, when white politicians across the South were enacting laws to erase Black political power gained during Reconstruction.
For the first time, candidates of all political parties can truthfully emphasize voter turnout, where before it had to be such a scattered approach,' Presley said last week at Tougaloo College, an historically Black school in Jackson. 'This will be the first time particularly that Black voters’ votes will count to an extent of 100%, where before, an argument could be made that they were very much diluted.
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