Mississippi voters rejected the second cousin of Elvis Presley on Tuesday evening, unwilling to oust an unpopular Republican governor in favour of a Democrat.
Tate Reeves was on track to win re-election as Brandon Presley came up short across the state; the 46-year-old white Democrat had sought to build alliances with Mississippi’s sizeable Black population but ultimately failed to do so in numbers that would have made him competitive in a state where white voters largely vote conservative.
