While President Trump campaigned for Republican Tate Reeves ahead of Tuesday's Mississippi gubernatorial election, his Democratic challenger — Attorney General Jim Hood — has distanced himself from national Democrats and those running in the state.
Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood responds to a question during the second televised gubernatorial debate with Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, in the studios of WCBI-TV in Columbus, Miss., Monday, Oct. 14, 2019.
That lone statewide Democrat is fourth-term Attorney General Jim Hood, who has been elected with bipartisan support and is now his party’s nominee in the open race for governor. He’s locked in a tight contest with Republican Tate Reeves, who is finishing his second term as lieutenant governor after two terms as the elected state treasurer. Two other gubernatorial candidates are running low-budget campaigns.
“It’s going to be hard enough for me to win in this state,” Hood said. “And I want to make sure that I represent Republicans and Democrats — because a lot of Republicans are going to vote for me.” Republicans started rising a generation ago, when a blunt-spoken contractor named Kirk Fordice unseated a Democratic governor in 1991. The GOP has held the Governor’s Mansion for all but one term since then, and it has steadily picked up other offices.
Collins said she is “disappointed” that Hood won’t campaign with her or other Democrats. She said Democratic Party rules require the party’s nominees to support each other. “We always lift each other up if the other person is not in the room,” Collins said of her agreement with DuPree and Cole.
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