Mississippi
Mississippi election: 4 Congress seats on primary ballots
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi holds celebration primaries Tuesday for its 4 U.S. Home seats, with three Republicans and one Democrat looking for reelection. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. If runoffs are wanted, they are going to be June 28.
Republican Rep. Trent Kelly gained a 2015 particular election in north Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District after serving as district lawyer for a number of counties in north Mississippi. He’s endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
Kelly is challenged within the Republican main by Mark D. Strauss, who has a picket fence close to his residence painted with slogans together with “Trump Received” and “ COVID assessments are poison.”
The first District Democratic main is between two first-time candidates. Hunter Avery says he helps Medicare for all, and Dianne Black says she needs to broaden entry to well being care and battle local weather change.
2ND DISTRICT
Mississippi’s lone Democrat in Washington, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, is chairman of the Home Homeland Safety Committee and co-chairman of a committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. Thompson has been in Congress since successful a 1993 particular election. The 2nd District now encompasses most of western Mississippi and far of the metro Jackson space.
Thompson faces one Democratic main opponent, Jerry Kerner, who calls Thompson “a gullible follower of the anti-American Home management.”
The 2nd District Republican main candidates are Michael Carson, a diesel mechanic who cites former President Ronald Reagan as a task mannequin; Ronald Eller, a retired Military captain who’s campaigning on free enterprise and restricted authorities; Brian Flowers, a army veteran who misplaced to Thompson in 2020 and now says Thompson “is attempting to intimidate American patriots” by investigating the actions of Jan. 6, 2021; and Stanford Johnson, a truck driver who advocates congressional time period limits.
3RD DISTRICT
U.S. Rep. Michael Visitor was first elected in 2018 in central Mississippi’s third Congressional District, after serving as a district lawyer in Rankin and Madison counties. He has campaigned on supporting border safety and gun rights.
Visitor is challenged by Michael Cassidy, a former Navy pilot who criticizes Visitor for being within the minority of Republicans who voted to create a committee to research the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol; and Thomas B. Griffin, a enterprise proprietor who says he needs to place Christian values into faculties.
No Democratic main is being held as a result of Shuwaski A. Younger was unopposed for the nomination. He might be on the final election poll.
4TH DISTRICT
Republican U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo is a army veteran who unseated a longtime Democratic congressman in 2010 in south Mississippi’s 4th District. Now, he faces his largest-ever discipline of challengers, with six different candidates within the GOP main.
A 2021 report by the workplace of Congressional Ethics discovered “substantial purpose to imagine” Palazzo had abused his workplace by misspending marketing campaign funds, doing favors for his brother, and enlisting workers for political and private errands. Palazzo declined to totally take part within the investigation, however his spokeswoman on the time, Colleen Kennedy, stated the it was based mostly on “false allegations” made by an opponent in a earlier main.
Difficult Palazzo for the Republican nomination are Carl Boyanton, a former produce enterprise proprietor who misplaced to Palazzo within the 2020 GOP main and filed the grievance that prompted the ethics investigation of the congressman; Raymond N. Brooks, who has been a Gulfport police officer and says he needs to strengthen border safety; Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell, who can be campaigning on border safety; Kidron Peterson, a machinist who says he needs to convey manufacturing jobs again to the U.S.; Clay Wagner, a retired banker who says he needs to restrict taxation and regulation; and state Sen. Brice Wiggins, who’s campaigning on border safety and has labored to broaden entry to early childhood education schemes.
Two candidates are looking for the Democratic nomination. Johnny L. DuPree is a former Hattiesburg mayor and was the Democratic nominee for governor in 2011. David Sellers is a minister who says he needs to extend the minimal wage and finish mass incarceration.
A Libertarian candidate, Alden Patrick Younger, might be on the 4th District poll in November.