The latest direct mail piece accuses Davis, the mayor of the Memphis suburb of Southaven, of attempting to honor Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest with a statue of him in his hometown -- a charge that the Davis campaign vigorously disputes.
And on Sunday, Democratic officials distributed DCCC fliers at African-American churches in the district that accuse Republicans of making it “harder for us to vote – fake phone calls, calls with the wrong election date, uniformed guards at the polls, even people inside the polls challenging each and every vote.