Trent Kelly has represented Mississippi's 1st District since 2015. After more than a decade in Washington, his record is clear. Here are 3 things voters in north Mississippi should know.
He refused to accept the 2020 election
When you cast a legal vote, it should count. Trent Kelly didn't see it that way.
After Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election, Kelly refused to accept the results, posting on Facebook that "the election isn't over until all legal votes are counted and all legal challenges have been addressed." Those legal challenges were heard — and thrown out, one after another, for lack of any evidence of fraud.
It didn't matter. Kelly still voted to object to certifying the Electoral College results. After a violent mob stormed the Capitol, he rationalized the attack by saying "you see what happens when you don't enforce laws." And he voted against the bipartisan commission to investigate what happened on January 6th. The accountability group GOP Accountability gives him a Democracy Score of F.
When your own representative won't accept the votes you legally cast, that should worry you no matter your party.
He votes against clean air and water almost every time
We all deserve clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. Trent Kelly has spent his career voting the other way.
The League of Conservation Voters scores how every member of Congress votes on the environment. Kelly earned an abysmal 0% for 2024 — and just 1% over his entire career. That means that when it comes to protecting Mississippi's air, water, and land, he votes the wrong way nearly 100% of the time.
That record lines up with a broader push in Washington to gut the EPA and even stop counting the lives saved when the government sets limits on air pollution. The bill comes due for the rest of us — in higher rates of asthma, cancer, and early death. For a district full of farmland, rivers, and small towns that depend on a healthy environment, a near-perfect anti-environment record isn't something to brag about.
He wants the government controlling women's bodies
America is supposed to be the land of freedom — including the freedom to make your own private medical decisions. Trent Kelly disagrees.
Kelly urged the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, and he got his wish. But he didn't stop there. He has supported so-called fetal personhood legislation, praised states' most extreme abortion bans, and pushed to defund Planned Parenthood — which provides cancer screenings and basic health care to women who often have nowhere else to go.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Kelly thinks he knows better than the women of Mississippi about their own lives and bodies. That's not freedom — that's government control.
So whose side is Trent Kelly on?
Polluters over the clean air and water his constituents breathe and drink. His party's lie about a stolen election over the votes you legally cast. The government over a woman's most private decisions. Pick any one of the three, and the answer comes out the same — the people of north Mississippi are never the ones at the front of the line. After more than ten years in office, that's not an accident. In 2026, voters get the chance to make him notice.
