Rep. Guest Defeats GOP Challenger in Runoff Despite Jan. 6th Criticism

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US House Rep. Michael Guest, the incumbent in Mississippis 3rd Congressional District, soundly defeated challenger Michael Cassidy in tonights Republican primary runoff. The runoff follows a surprising near-victory for Cassidy in the June 7 primary, where the Naval reserve pilot eked out a first place finish but failed to win the 50% necessary to avoid a runoff.

Cassidy has repeatedly attacked Guest for voting in favor of a committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. A Republican filibuster eventually killed that bill, but the US House established its own select committee.

Amid GOP criticism, Guest claimed his vote was necessary to investigate what was (US House) Speaker Pelosis role, and what is the level of blame that should be placed on her for what happened on Jan. 6?

To this day Mr. Guest refuses to acknowledge that he shouldnt have voted for that bill, Cassidy wrote on social media, which 9 times called the events of January 6 a domestic terror attack. Lets show Mr. Guest and the rest of the RINOs that there ARE consequences to their actions and vote him out of office on June 28th.

But Guest reclaimed the momentum in the contest through highlighting Cassidys own proposals, many of which called for enormous spending on health care, years-long maternity leave, and a unique proposal to pay all newlyweds $20,000to be paid back in the event of a divorce .

Michael Cassidy claims to be a conservative, but he wants to spend YOUR money like a socialist liberal, darkly intoned a website from a group identified as Friends of Michael Guest.

Following the primary upset, Guest and GOP allies pounced on Cassidys plans, which quickly disappeared from the candidates campaign website. In an interview with the Mississippi Free Press, Cassidy sprinted away from those proposals, arguing that to call them plans at all was a misrepresentation of the Guest campaign.

That was a rough draft, Cassidy said. It was never a plan, I never campaigned on it, and it was not Medicare For All.

Cassidy instead shared a raft of significantly more modest plans including child tax deductions and quicker time to market for new prescription drugs in the place of his earlier proposals.

For all of Cassidys attempts to reframe his websites content as briefly considered ideas, the shift in support in tonights primary runoff was stark. Though Guest claimed just under 300 votes less than Cassidy in the June 7 contest, tonight Guest thumped his opponent by a 67%-to-33% margin with about 99% of votes counted.

Just before the election, Cassidy took to social media to complain that Guest was coordinating with Democrats to rig the run-off election this Tuesday.

Cassidy referred to allegations that Mississippi GOP Chairman David Carter met with Democratic candidate for Mississippis 3rd Congressional District Shuwaski Young, in order to encourage Democratic voters to support Guest in the primary and then Young in the general election. Cassidy cited an outdated version of Mississippis state code which prevented individuals from voting for a candidate in a primary unless they intended to vote for that candidate in the general election.

The Legislature amended that part of state code years ago. Now, voters are only barred from voting in the primaries of both parties, not from voting in the primary of one party and then supporting a different candidate in the general election.

Guest will face Democratic candidate Shuwaski Young in November. You can learn about Youngs view on the issues with his responses to MFPs candidate questionnaire. Guest has not responded to the questionnaire.

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