(22 Apr 2025)
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Jackson, Mississippi – 17 -18 April 2025
1. Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba leading chant at campaign event
2. Close up of Lumumba campaign sign
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Millsaps College Assistant Professor Dr. Eric R. Schmidt:
"Chokwe Antar Lumumba has served as Mayor of Jackson for coming up on two terms. He’s running for his third term in office."
4. Jackson city seal
5. "Vote here" sign
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Millsaps College Assistant Professor Dr. Eric R. Schmidt
"The mayor has been indicted of multiple counts of conspiracy and bribery."
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Jackson, Mississippi – 7 November 2024
7. Thad Cochran Courthouse sign
8. Wideshot of Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba walking down courthouse steps
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, City of Jackson, Mississippi:
"I am not guilty. And so I will not proceed as a guilty man."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jackson, Mississippi – 17 -18 April 2025
10. Medium shot of Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba at campaign event
11. Close up on "office of the mayor" sign
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba:
"Residents have been, you know, told a narrative that should — that should give them every reason for us not to be here, right? And we’re trying to make it clear that that’s not who we are."
13. Horhn for mayor campaign sings
14. Horhn for mayor billboard
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Mississippi State Senator John Horhn:
"So I’ve run several times. This is my fourth try actually, and I feel that the fourth time may be the charm."
16. Close up on Mississippi State Capitol
17. Horhn for mayor sign
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Mississippi State Senator John Horhn:
"I ran in ’17 and we came in second to the incumbent."
19. Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba listens to speaker at campaign event
20. Lumumba campaign sign being held in the air
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Mississippi State Senator John Horhn:
"People are ready for something different. They are ready for change; they’re ready for leadership; they’re ready for better streets; they’re ready for less crime; they’re ready for more opportunities."
22. Large Lumumba campaign sign
23. Close up on Mississippi State Senator John Horhn
24. Mississippi state flag and American flag waving in the wind
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Millsaps College Assistant Professor Dr. Eric R. Schmidt:
“What’s different is that John Horhn has the support, for example, of Congressman Bennie Thompson, who just endorsed him the other day; what’s different is that he came very close to Democratic party nomination outright; and what’s different as well is the cloud that the criminal indictment against the current mayor has cast over the race.”
26. Man sitting on bench
27. Young girls hopping off picnic table
STORYLINE:
After being indicted on federal bribery and conspiracy charges last year, the mayor of Mississippi’s capital is now fighting to keep his job. Jackson Mayor Choke Antar Lumumba is facing off against State Sen. John Horhn in a democratic primary runoff on April 22, 2025.
It’s a match up Jackson voters have seen before. In 2017, Lumumba and Horhn ran against each other for mayor. Lumumba won the democratic primary outright, earning 55% of the vote. This time around, Lumumba’s vote share dropped to 17% in the April 1 primary with Horhn securing 48%, leading to Tuesday’s runoff.
AP Video shot by Sophie Bates, Emily Wagster Pettus
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