{"id":2089873,"date":"2023-11-04T07:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T11:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/november-to-remember-mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-seeks-to-fend-off-democrat-brandon-presley\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T07:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T11:21:30","slug":"november-to-remember-mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-seeks-to-fend-off-democrat-brandon-presley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/november-to-remember-mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-seeks-to-fend-off-democrat-brandon-presley\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves battles Democrat Brandon Presley in November."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnovember-to-remember-mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-seeks-to-fend-off-democrat-brandon-presley%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2089873&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The 2023 Elections: A November to Remember<\/h2>\n<p>The 2023 elections may\u2063 not have the fireworks of 2024, but there \u200cis still plenty up for grabs. In this &#8220;off-year,&#8221; most of which takes place on Nov. 7,\u2062 Virginia will be keenly watched, particularly by followers of \u200bGov. Glenn \u2062Youngkin, \u2064and whether he can springboard\u200c Republican\u2062 success into national aspirations. Meanwhile, the governor&#8217;s mansion is up for grabs in \u200cKentucky and Mississippi. New Jersey&#8217;s \u2062Republicans believe they have a real shot at turning the state red in legislative elections, while there are also fierce mayoral \u2062and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/november-to-remember-virginia-elections-could-launch-youngkin-national-run\/\" title=\"Virginia elections in November could potentially launch Youngkin's national political career.\">district attorney battles<\/a> throughout the\u2064 United States. Voters will also decide several fascinating referendums, particularly in \u200dOhio, Maine, and Texas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>November to Remember: Mississippi&#8217;s Gubernatorial Election<\/h3>\n<p>Although Republicans hold all statewide seats in \u2063Mississippi,\u2063 Democratic Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley is hoping to defeat Gov. Tate Reeves (R-MS) in his reelection bid.\u200b But he faces a serious uphill climb.<\/p>\n<p>Presley, a second cousin to rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll legend Elvis\u200d Presley, seeks to become the first Democratic governor in the Magnolia State since Gov. Ronnie Musgrove left office in 2004. As an incumbent, Reeves is the likely favorite to win his reelection bid despite some complications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reeves, first elected in 2019, is one of the least\u2063 popular governors in the\u200b nation, according to a July Morning Consult survey. He \u200bhas been plagued by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-gov-tate-reeves-leading-brandon-presley-in-mississippis-governor-race-poll\/\" title=\"Republican Gov. Tate Reeves ahead of Brandon Presley in Mississippi's governor race: Poll\">multimillion-dollar welfare scandal<\/a>\u200c in which $77 \u200cmillion in federal funds for the state&#8217;s \u2062low-income\u2064 residents was instead directed to wealthy Mississippians.<\/p>\n<p>Presley has campaigned and released ads \u200bslamming Reeves for the scandal, but the governor hit back with\u2063 his own ad claiming that &#8220;he\u200c had nothing to do with \u2063the scandal. Nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Presley has also highlighted expanding Medicaid, to which\u200c Reeves is opposed, if \u200delected governor. Mississippi is one of\u2064 the top 10 poorest states in the nation, with\u200d a 19.4% poverty rate. An\u200c October Mississippi Today-Siena\u2062 College poll showed 72% \u200cof voters\u2062 favored Medicaid expansion with 23% opposed.<\/p>\n<p>John Couvillon, a Louisiana-based pollster and consultant,\u200c said he likely sees Reeves eking out a win similar to his 2019 race against Democratic state Attorney General Jim Hood in which Reeves won 52.1% of\u2062 the vote over Hood&#8217;s 46.6%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see the percentages\u2064 being similar to the \u200dReeves hood race four years ago because you have two countervailing things \u200bgoing on,&#8221; Couvillon told the \u200cWashington Examiner. &#8220;The first is Reeves is no longer a challenger. He&#8217;s the incumbent and so that&#8217;s worth something, and\u200c that \u2063I think will offset any loss of popularity that Reeves may have from\u2063 unfavorable publicity about the \u2063welfare scandal.&#8221; But Couvillon also said Reeves will\u2064 likely underperform relative \u2064to the other Republicans on the statewide ticket.<\/p>\n<p>During the one and only debate\u2062 between the two candidates on Wednesday, \u200dReeves sought to tie Presley to \u2062national Democrats, including President Joe Biden, who faces his\u2062 own high disapproval numbers. &#8220;My opponent has outsourced his entire campaign to the\u2062 Democrat National Committee,&#8221; Reeves said. &#8220;Joe Biden and his buddies have funded \u2062his campaign to the tune of 80% of the money that he has raised has come from California, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. It ain&#8217;t charity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They know if he\u200b is elected he&#8217;s gone govern like Joe Biden has governed America,&#8221; Reeves continued.<\/p>\n<p>Although Presley has outraised Reeves by \u2064more than $5 million throughout the race, the governor has had more in cash on hand in \u200bthe final days of the contest. Reeves has $3 million in cash \u2063remaining compared to Presley&#8217;s $1.2 million cash on hand, although $2 million of Reeves&#8217;s cash on hand falls under separate campaign \u2063laws. The Democratic Governors Association has poured nearly $4 million into Presley&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A\u2062 recent Democratic Governors Association poll\u200b showed Reeves beating Presley by only a percentage point, 46% to 45%, according to Mississippi Today. The poll theoretically put both candidates under the 50% threshold necessary to prevent a Nov, 28 runoff election. A previous poll from Magnolia Tribune-Mason-Dixon showed Reeves leading Presley 51% to 43%, an 8-point advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Plus Gwendolyn Gray, who ran as\u200c an independent, will \u200dstill be on the ballot despite dropping out of the\u200d race and endorsing Presley.<\/p>\n<p>Presley&#8217;s most likely path \u2064to a win will \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/november-to-remember-mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-seeks-to-fend-off-democrat-brandon-presley\/\" title=\"Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves battles Democrat Brandon Presley in November.\">include maximizing black\u2063 voter turnout<\/a>,\u2064 the crux of the state&#8217;s Democratic base, while limiting the amount of the white\u2062 vote he loses to Reeves. Sabato&#8217;s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics outlined one pathway to a win \u200cthat involves Presley needing\u2062 &#8220;roughly 30% of the white vote and getting black voters to make up at \u200cleast one-third or so of the electorate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Couvillon predicted that Reeves would likely\u200b pull in more of the rural vote\u2063 in Mississippi\u2062 but would need to minimize losses in suburban counties. &#8220;The thing about\u2062 the Reeves&#8217;s coalition is if\u200c you look at\u2064 the county-by-county vote in 2019, and I&#8217;m\u200c expecting something very similar this time, Reeves&#8217;s strongest\u200c vote was in the rural counties,&#8221; he\u200d said. &#8220;And he would need to minimize any losses\u2063 in the suburban counties where you\u2063 have attitudinal Republicans who are not necessarily Republican up\u2062 and down the ballot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are\u2064 voters say in the Jackson suburbs, in the Memphis suburbs, in the Gulf \u2064Coast counties, and to \u2062a smaller extent the university counties where \u200cHattiesburg and Oxford and Starkville are, where those voters they&#8217;re kind of 50\/50 in\u2063 their partisan \u2064leanings,&#8221; he added. \u2063&#8221;And\u200b that is to me ground zero of any kind\u200c of\u200b slippage for Reeves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of\u200d Sabato&#8217;s \u200dCrystal Ball, told the Washington Examiner that the burden of proof remains on Presley to defy emerging electoral trends. &#8220;One of the big electoral trends we&#8217;ve seen over the past few cycles is \u2063basically Democrats \u200care not getting the black turnout that\u200c they\u2064 need in a lot\u200b of the South,&#8221;\u200d he said. &#8220;Yes, there have been some exceptions here and there, Sen. Raphael Warnock in the runoff last year. But to\u2063 me is \u200cBrandon Presley Raphael Warnock? I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 one notable example of low Democratic turnout, Republican Jeff Landry beat out all other GOP candidates and Democrat Shawn Wilson to succeed Gov.\u2062 John Bel Edwards (D-LA) as chief executive last month, conveniently avoiding a runoff race. Reeves could likely pull an outright win on election night as \u2064well.<\/p>\n<p>Trey Hood III, a political scientist who specializes in Southern politics at\u200c the University of Georgia, told the Washington Examiner that Republicans in Mississippi may have such an advantage that Presley won&#8217;t be able to unseat Reeves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would give the edge to \u200cthe Republican candidate \u2062in the statewide race,&#8221; Hood said. &#8220;I just don&#8217;t think the Democratic coalition is big enough in Mississippi to effectively really make a challenge. What typically has to happen just like \u200bin Louisiana, with John Bel Edwards getting\u2063 elected, is a scandal like \u2063Vitter or say Roy Moore in Alabama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hood was referencing Edwards besting GOP Sen. David Vitter\u2062 in\u200d 2015 partly due to a 2007 prostitution scandal Vitter was involved\u2064 in and Moore&#8217;s 2017 senatorial loss to Democrat\u2064 Doug Jones.<\/p>\n<p>In regard to Presley&#8217;s attempts to maximize a multiracial coalition, of which black voters make up nearly 40%\u200c of the state&#8217;s population,\u200c to success Hood offered some caution. &#8220;It&#8217;s not that \u2063the Democrats won&#8217;t turn out \u2014 I&#8217;m not saying that \u2014 or that African \u200dAmericans aren&#8217;t going to turn out. It&#8217;s just that\u2064 the size of the coalition I\u200d don&#8217;t think is going to be big enough to really challenge Reeves&#8217;s election coalition,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Presley may have some advantage\u200c due to changes in how the Magnolia State \u200cchooses its governor.\u2064 Three years ago, the state removed an 1890 law from its Constitution,\u2063 intended to dilute the \u200cblack \u2063vote, that required candidates in statewide races\u2063 to both receive a majority of the popular vote and win \u200da majority of the state\u2019s House districts. Now a candidate simply needs to win the popular vote in order to capture the governor&#8217;s mansion.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump weighed in on the race on Wednesday when he encouraged Mississippi residents to vote for Reeves. &#8220;To all\u200d my friends in Mississippi, you have a choice to make. Your great governor, Tate Reeves, is under attack,&#8221; Trump said in a video \u2064post. &#8220;The radical Left maniacs who are\u200b attacking \u200cme are also after him. These bad people, and they are bad, want to\u2062 defeat \u2062Tate Reeves because he&#8217;s \u200ca fighter. He&#8217;s done a fantastic job on the border. He&#8217;s tough on crime and he loves America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coleman, the editor of Sabato&#8217;s Crystal Ball, noted that there is an emerging trend that incumbent lawmakers are harder to defeat. &#8220;It&#8217;s \u200cjust hard to beat\u200b an incumbent governor these days,&#8221; he \u200csaid. &#8220;In 2022, that was the first midterm since \u200b2002 where all the sitting governors were renominated. And in the general election,\u200c only one governor lost \u2014 that \u200cwas [former Democratic Gov.] Steve Sisolak in Nevada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just seems like it&#8217;s generally \u200da good time to\u200c be an incumbent governor,&#8221; \u200cMiles added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/elections\/mississippi-governor-race-brandon-presley-tate-reeves\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE\u200d FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2>What are the reasons for non participation of people in politics?<\/h2>\n<p><span>Barriers to political participation Education \u2013 without information and knowledge, meaningful participation in politics can be difficult. Social isolation \u2013 there is a limited network to support and encourage political participation.\u200b Personal factors \u2013 people may \u200dhave limited confidence or motivation to participate. Pulation, Coleman expressed skepticism. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure that there is enough evidence to suggest that Presley\u200d can get\u200d the\u200b 30% of\u200c the white vote that \u2064he needs,\u2063 while\u200b also maximizing black turnout,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s \u200da difficult task \u200dgiven the current \u200dpolitical climate in Mississippi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges, Presley \u2063continues to campaign vigorously, emphasizing his commitment \u200cto expanding Medicaid and addressing issues of poverty and inequality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>up for grabs in New Jersey, where the outcome will be closely observed for potential implications on the national political landscape. 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