The Dirt Road Democrats PAC has named two former Democratic gubernatorial nominees as its 2024 co-chairs: Arkansas’s own Chris Jones, who lost to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in 2022, and Brandon Presley, who narrowly lost the 2023 race for Mississippi governor to Republican incumbent Tate Reeves.
The PAC announced its new co-chairs by posting a video on X, formerly Twitter, featuring both men donning upscale, rugged vests, driving down dirt roads in pickups and rattling off several smaller elections from around the country that the political action committee helped Democratic candidates win.
There are dirt roads across America.
We are excited to announce that @BrandonPresley and @JonesForAR are our 2024 co-chairs.
To win the House and defend the Senate, Dems must cede no ground.
Including red places with dirt roads. pic.twitter.com/xzEEhb7lkU— Dirt Road Dems (@DirtRoadPAC) May 16, 2024
“We’ve made important other investments towards winning rural parts of our country,” Jones said.
According to its website, Dirt Road Democrats, founded by Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison, works to reinvigorate Democratic Party support in rural areas where it has become the minority party. Harrison, who no longer works with Dirt Road Democrats, started the organization after his failed U.S. Senate bid against Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) in 2020.