Democrats could be about to pull off a shock upset in Tuesday’s Mississippi gubernatorial election, with a recent poll putting their candidate behind by just one point, while a major bookmaker now has him odds-on to win.
Brandon Presley, second cousin of music legend Elvis Presley, is hoping to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves. It would make him the first Democratic governor of the state for two decades.
The most-recent poll for the Mississippi contest, released by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) in October, gave Reeves a lead of just one point, putting him on 46 percent of the vote against 45 percent for Presley.