Mississippi voters discuss the issues behind their primary choices

Описание: (10 Mar 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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Jackson, Mississippi - 10 March 2026
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Selket Myles, Democratic voter, for Bennie Thompson and Scott Colom:
"Food prices are high. I mean, I only there's only my husband and I and it's unbelievable I had a sack full of food back there in the back seat of my car and it was costing double to bring it home."
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Selket Myles, Democratic voter, for Bennie Thompson and Scott Colom:
"My husband is a gas junkie, so he's really concerned and he's always pricing gas."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ann Philley, Republican voter, for Cindy Hyde-Smith and Michael Gass:
"Well, of course the war and being afraid of what some of the countries are trying to do to us."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessie Ree Jones, a resident of Jackson, voted in Democratic primary:
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"I am a grandmother and a great-grand so I'm really really interested in the things that go on in my grandchildren and my children's lives."
5. Jessie Ree Jones walking out a polling center with her husband
6. Mark Hopson holding a sign that writes "Re-elect Bennie Thompson"
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Hopson, voted for Rep. Bennie Thompson in the Democratic primary:
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"We don't need nobody just to sit around and wait on something to happen. We need somebody continually working for the people."
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Selket Myles, Democratic voter, for Bennie Thompson and Scott Colom:
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"Voting is so important, I don't understand why a lot of the community doesn't come out and vote. You know, with the results sometimes it's like what's the point but I feel like the point is that I have something to say and that I should voice it because if I don't voice it then I have nothing to say."
9. Various shots of inside a polling place

STORYLINE:
Mississippi voters will choose party nominees for Congress in a state primary Tuesday. The state’s junior Republican U.S. senator and the entire U.S. House delegation are up for reelection. All but one have drawn multiple challengers from one or both major parties hoping to unseat them.

The Associated Press spoke with voters in Jackson, Mississippi, about the issues they care about most as they arrived at the polls.

Selket Myles, a Democratic primary voter who cast ballots for Bennie Thompson and Scott Colom, said affordability is her top concern.

“Food prices are high. I mean, it’s only my husband and me, and it’s unbelievable. I had a sack full of food in the back seat of my car, and it cost double to bring it home,” Myles said.

“Of course, the war and being afraid of what some of the countries are trying to do to us,” said Anann Philley, a Republican primary voter who voted for Cindy Hyde-Smith and Michael Guest.

Voters also spoke about the importance of turning out to vote.

“I have something to say, and I should voice it, because if I don’t voice it, then I have nothing to say,” Myles added.

AP Video shot by Sophie Bates
Production by River Zhang

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