National Democrats, flush with cash and looking for a narrative showing their party can retake the South from a near 20-year Republican dominance, are pulling out all the stops to try to create a competitive Mississippi governors race between incumbent Gov. Tate Reeves (R-MS) and Democrat Brandon Presley.
In doing so, they want to make up for what they failed to accomplish in the Georgia rematch between Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) and Democrat Stacey Abrams last November.
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The Washington-based Democratic Governors Association has dumped an eye-popping amount, nearly $4 million, into a seat they haven’t held in 20 years, almost twice as much as it invested when Reeves ran four years ago against Democrat Jim Hood, then the state’s attorney general. Reeves won then by 5 percentage points.
Earlier this month, third-party…
