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Mississippi Democratic gubernatorial nominee Brandon Presley greets a crowd of Jackson State University fans during the school's homecoming game on Oct. 14.JACKSON, Miss. ― With a boyish grin and a bounce in his cowboy-booted step, Brandon Presley rounded the corner in a crowded parking lot at Jackson State University’s football stadium, where Charles Morris pulled him aside for a chat.
Charles Morris speaks with Presley in the parking lot of the Jackson State University homecoming game on Oct. 14. Morris wanted assurances of more funding for HBCUs.A combination of unlikely factors have vaulted Presley, the public service commissioner who oversees state-regulated utilities in northern Mississippi, into contention for the governorship of one of the most Republican states in the country.the majority of the state’s 122 state House districts.
But previous Democratic nominees have put in far less work than Presley, who also attended the homecoming game at another HBCU, Alcorn State University, in the Mississippi Delta, on Oct. 7. Those visits were part of Presley’s swing through all 84 counties in the state, including those in the most remote, predominantly Black parts of the Delta. His campaign is also spending
“Previous candidates have focused on rural whites,” said Porter, who is Black. “There’s not too much you can do to sway a Trump person. I don’t care how you twist, turn and bend ― they are where they are.”“Mississippians deserve a leader who cares,” Thompson said at the time. “That’s who Brandon Presley is, it’s exactly what he will do and why he has my support.”in the overwhelmingly Black Delta region in August.
He is running as a “populist at heart” focused on expanding Medicaid in the state and cleaning up corruption in the state capitol. Chester Watts of Jackson, Mississippi, speaks with Presley while tailgating at the Jackson State University homecoming football game on Oct. 14Several of Presley’s supporters at JSU brought up the topic with Presley unprompted, and often shared their stories about people who cannot afford health care.
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