Thread by @BradOnMessage

After #MSGov results, you need some context for why @MSTODAYnews hates @TateReeves so much, & why it totally fabricates charges against him, and pretends he has nothing to do with his own success. Give me a moment (thread): 1/10

In 2004, in his 1st year in office @tatereeves sued the most popular Dem pol in the state, AG Mike Moore, & won - dismantling a state-settlement-funded non-profit that was his de facto political operation. Notice served. 2/10

In 2012, in his first year as LG, @tatereeves sinks the state bond bill, chock full of capital projects for universities, serving notice that ALL future spending policy will go through him, be more conservative & that the higher ed bureaucracy need pay attention. 3/10

In 2015, Jim Barksdale funds Amendment 42 to give all power to set eduction funding levels statewide to one Hinds County judge. Guess who organized & funded the campaign to beat it - with less money? It was @tatereeves. Tate vowed to never be outspent again. 4/10

The next year (2016), Barksdale starts @MSTODAYnews, using left-wing donor money to produce “free” left-slanted content for other news outlets, from a staff of mostly ideologues. The only price for getting the content was sacrificing integrity. 5/10

In 2019, Barksdale stakes Dem gov nominee Jim Hood, the last statewide Dem, in a race he is favored to win, while @MSTODAYnews props up leftish R Bill Waller in the GOP primary. @tatereeves beats Waller twice & then Hood. 6/10

In 2022, @MSTODAYnews drops all neutral pretense & cranks out anti-Tate content full blast centered on faked connection to TANF scandal, when in fact MT editor @GanucheauAdam’s mom was the one embroiled. He covers up his conflict for months, then promptly stops disclaiming it. 7/

From the first days of 2023, @MSTODAYnews is Brandon Presley’s cheering section & his attack dogs. I dare you to dig up 2 articles or even one cartoon critical of him, or off-key from his campaign’s own message of the day. 8/10

After Tate becomes the 1st in modern MS history to win 6 statewide races, @MSTODAYnews’s @BobbyHarrison9 writes his success off to mere partisanship, like he said Tate’s 2019 victory was due to Trump, & his 2003 victory was due to racism. At least his hackery is consistent. 9/10

Tate Reeves has never lost to libs yet in Mississippi. And he beat not only @BrandonPresley & the @DemGovs this time, he beat perhaps the most relentless, & intentionally deceptive “media” outlet any Deep South politician has ever faced. Let the post-mortems tell the truth. 10/10