Jackie Calmes: How a Mississippi vote next week could foretell Democrats' 2024 fate
by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
Nov 03, 2023
3 minutes
Democrats are so accustomed to losing statewide elections in blood-red Mississippi that they hardly get all shook up about a candidate for governor anymore. Yet days before Tuesday's election, polls have Democratic nominee Brandon Presley — second cousin to that other Presley, who lived "up the road in Tupelo," as Brandon says — in a tight race with the scandal-sullied Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, in what the nonpartisan Cook Political Report called "the most surprising race" among several gubernatorial contests in this off-year election season.
To win, Presley must generate high turnout among Black voters, who comprise 38%
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