{"id":116515,"date":"2023-07-31T01:44:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116515"},"modified":"2023-07-31T01:44:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:44:25","slug":"mississippis-giant-houseparty-shows-sharp-divide-between-gop-governor-and-democratic-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116515","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;\u2018Mississippi\u2019s Giant Houseparty\u2019 shows sharp divide between GOP governor and Democratic challenger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mississippi-governor-election-reeves-presley-7e38dbe518f71a743422445b1efc18ea\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a>: &#8220;Mississippi\u2019s political divide was on full display Thursday in the blazing heat as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mississippi-governor-reeves-campaign-fundraising-31d5a7cf6ecf3a166d9d0fcafcb561c3\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Gov. Tate Reeves<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mississippi-governor-reeves-brandon-presley-elvis-cousin-5130a94afb4b78a6601a128964ce55df\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic challenger Brandon Presley<\/a>\u00a0spoke to a rowdy outdoor crowd at the largest political event of this election year, less than two weeks before party primaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spectators cheered their own candidate \u2014 \u201cTate! Tate! Tate!\u201d \u201cBran-don! Bran-don!\u201d \u2014 and heckled the other \u2014 \u201cLiar! Liar!\u201d \u201cLater, Tater!\u201d \u2014 at the Neshoba County Fair, a gathering known as \u201cMississippi\u2019s Giant Houseparty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For several days, groups of friends and families live in colorful cabins on the fairgrounds. Political speeches are one form of entertainment, along with concerts and horse races.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP: &#8220;Mississippi\u2019s political divide was on full display Thursday in the blazing heat as\u00a0Republican Gov. Tate Reeves\u00a0and\u00a0Democratic challenger Brandon Presley\u00a0spoke to a rowdy outdoor crowd at the largest political event of this election year, less than two weeks before party primaries. Spectators cheered their own candidate \u2014 \u201cTate! Tate! Tate!\u201d \u201cBran-don! Bran-don!\u201d \u2014 and heckled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116516,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116515\/revisions\/116516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}