Mississippi Governor’s Race a Testing Ground for 2020 Election

Bitter rivals are going head-to-head now that Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves finally has secured the Republican nomination for governor of Mississippi.

Reeves defeated former Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller in Tuesday’s runoff. He faces Democrat Jim Hood, the state’s four-term attorney general, in the Nov. 5 election to replace term-limited Gov. Phil Bryant (R).

Reeves had won 49% of the vote in the Aug. 6 primary, then about 54% of the runoff vote, according to returns compiled by the Jackson Clarion Ledger.

Reeves opposes any Medicaid expansion, arguing in one of his final commercials that “Obamacare was ...