Gov. Tate Reeves is unpopular and scandal-prone. And his Democratic challenger, Brandon Presley, is almost as conservative as the incumbent.
that barely bumped him across the 50 percent line needed to win against the state’s former attorney general Jim Hood . Even after Trump’s Hail Mary validation, Reeves squeaked out a victory with just
The numerous disgraces involve misappropriated money from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, in which nearly $100 million in TANF funds were redirected from working poor families into the pockets and pet projects of friends of the governor. Presley is a self-styled Man of The People in a state in which 20 percent of The People are poor. The poorest state in the nation, remember? The second-least educated state behind West Virginia. Presley relates to voters with his stories of growing up poor, of being raised by a single working mother, of a childhood that sometimes didn’t include electricity or running water.
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