Primary runoffs take place Tuesday

Tomorrow, voters in Mississippi will make their final selections in a pair of party primary runoffs before general elections take place this November.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m., but low voter turnout during primary elections could mean an even lower turnout at the polls for a runoff.

Tomorrow’s focus revolves around State Representative David Baria and venture capitalist and political new comer Howard Sherman. Both men have their sights set on the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat.

The winner must face incumbent Roger Wicker and two other candidates in November. Sherman said, “The public tomorrow will be able to choose between if they want familiar, do they want my opponent who has been a legislator for the past 10 years or do we want someone who thinks out of the box. To me, if you’ve resided at the bottom of every list for 10,20,30 years, I think it’s time for change. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and again and expecting a different outcome. With me, we will get a different outcome for sure.”

News 25 also spoke to Sherman’s opponent David Baria who tells News 25 how he is hoping to accomplish change if elected. “Well, the first thing we need to do in Mississippi to enact change is to change the conversation, conversation around race, and around politics, and around policy in the state. We need leaders who are willing to confront things like the brain drain that our current leaders seem to say doesn’t exist. We have to have a conversation with ourselves about whether we are going to invest in ourselves because for the last 30 years we have prioritized cutting out of state corporation’s taxes over funding our public schools.”

If you voted on behalf of the Republican party in the primary elections you are not eligible for tomorrow’s runoff vote.