Turnage turns to Mamdani’s ad team in bid to unseat Thompson

• “If our Congressman’s 33 years in office had helped build up this district, built wealth and health in this district, there’d be no need for change,” Turnage asserts.

Evan Turnage, the former chief counsel to U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), has teamed up with the same ad team that helped Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, win the New York mayor’s race in 2025.

Turnage, an anti-trust lawyer, is seeking to defeat 33-year incumbent Democrat Congressman Bennie Thompson in Mississippi 2nd Congressional District. The two, along with Pertis Herman Williams III, will face off in the Democratic Primary on March 10.

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The new ad, titled “Done Playing Nice,” was filmed and produced by Fight Agency.

Since the firm’s founding in January 2025, Fight Agency has worked with Mamdani, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.

In addition, an ad for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), also a self-described Democratic socialist, is prominently displayed on the Fight Agency’s website.

Turnage’s campaign told Magnolia Tribune that they worked with Eric Stern at the Fight Agency on the Mississippi-focused ad. Stern is shown to have worked with Ruben Gallego’s U.S. Senate campaign in Arizona, John Fetterman’s Senate race in Pennsylvania, and Josh Stein’s statewide campaign for North Carolina Attorney General.

The Turnage ad takes on Thompon’s lengthy tenure that he says has done little to improve the economic conditions for residents in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District. Turnage says “the district still remains the poorest district in the poorest state.”

“We can’t keep sending in the same politicians in Washington who are getting richer every year while our communities fade away, the same old playbook from the ’90s has failed us, and it’s time to try something different,” Turnage says in the ad.

Turnage highlights his role in spearheading legislation “to strengthen corporate oversight, affirm that presidents are not immune from the law through the No Kings Act, and expand voting rights protections with the For the People Act.”

“If our Congressman’s 33 years in office had helped build up this district, built wealth and health in this district, there’d be no need for change,” Turnage asserts.

Watch the full ad for yourself below.

NOTE: Turnage’s campaign notified Magnolia Tribune that Fight Agency partner Rebecca Katz was not directly involved in the Mississippi campaign as they worked with Stern on the ad. That distinction was added to this article after its initial publication.