Democrats on the Verge of Shock Upset in Republican Heartland

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Polling and bookies suggest Democrat Brandon Presley could beat incumbent Tate Reeves to become governor of Mississippi.

Democrats could be about to pull off a shock upset in Tuesday's Mississippi gubernatorial election, with a recent poll putting their candidate behind by just one point, while a major bookmaker now has him odds-on to win.Brandon Presley, second cousin of music legend Elvis Presley, is hoping to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves. It would make him the first Democratic governor of the state for two decades.

75 million that has been given to his campaign by the DGA, a group affiliated with the national Democratic Party.In 2020, voters in Mississippi overturned a Jim Crow-era law imposed in 1890. It required candidates for statewide office to win a majority of both the popular vote and the 122 state House districts, substantially decreasing the power of mostly Democratic-supporting Black voters.Charles V. Taylor Jr., who heads the Mississippi state conference of civil-rights group N.A.A.C.P.

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