Mississippi
Mississippi: 4 House seats on ballot, 1 without incumbent
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is electing a brand new U.S. Home member as a result of a six-term Republican incumbent misplaced a June main amid accusations of misspending in a earlier marketing campaign.
The state’s three different incumbents every face one challenger.
The open seat is within the southern 4th District, the place Republican Mike Ezell, Democrat Johnny DuPree and Libertarian Alden Patrick Johnson are on the poll.
DuPree is a former Hattiesburg mayor and was the 2011 Democratic nominee for governor. Ezell is the sheriff of coastal Jackson County, and he defeated Rep. Steven Palazzo for the GOP nomination. Ezell criticized Palazzo for proxy voting — not exhibiting up in individual to vote within the Home however permitting one other member to vote in his place.
The Workplace of Congressional Ethics mentioned in 2021 it discovered “substantial purpose to imagine” Palazzo abused his workplace by misspending marketing campaign funds, doing favors for his brother and enlisting employees for political and private errands. His spokesperson on the time, Colleen Kennedy, mentioned the investigation was based mostly on politically motivated “false allegations.”
1st DISTRICT
Republican Rep. Trent Kelly is a former district legal professional who gained a 2015 particular election in north Mississippi’s 1st District. He was endorsed by former President Donald Trump within the main.
Kelly faces Democrat Dianne Black, a enterprise proprietor who says she desires to broaden entry to well being care and combat local weather change.
2nd DISTRICT
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson is chairman of the Home Homeland Safety Committee and has led the Home investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. He has been in workplace since profitable a 1993 particular election in western Mississippi’s 2nd District.
Thompson faces the identical Republican he defeated in 2020, army veteran Brian Flowers, who says this yr that Thompson “is attempting to intimidate American patriots” with the Jan. 6 investigation.
third DISTRICT
Republican Rep. Michael Visitor was additionally a district legal professional and gained central Mississippi’s third District seat in 2018. He has campaigned on opposing abortion rights and supporting border safety.
Visitor faces Democrat Shuwaski Younger, a army veteran who has campaigned on supporting abortion rights and defending Medicare and Social Safety.