With banners, yard signs, and brochures covering the windows, the Lafayette County Democrats are excited and thankful to call 1603 University Ave their new 2016 election headquarters.

Brad and Sharon Morris heard the group had been looking for a place so out of the kindness of their hearts decided to donate a vacant office space for the month before the election.

“We had an office before the 2012 election, we generally only have a brick and mortar office like a month or so before an election, because really there is no need, i mean otherwise.” said Cristen Hemmins the Chair of the Lafayette County Dems.

They moved into their new space at the first of October to ensure Oxford had a physical space for people to come to and buy “Hillary and Kaine” yard signs, “I’m with Her” t-shirts, as well as a variety of car stickers. They understand buying merchandise from the campaign could take weeks to come in and with roughly 20 days until the election time is running out.

“I think it makes people feel like there are democrats here who are obviously in Mississippi, the most conservative state in the country, I think it helps increase moral for Hillary supporters and democrats. I think there are a lot of cross over voters this election because Trump is such a terrible candidate. I’m hoping there are going to be a lot of republicans who wouldn’t want to say, there not democrats, but they’re voting for Hillary.” said Hemmins.

The Lafayette County Democrats group is strictly a volunteer based group. They are just trying to increase visibility and awareness for Hillary and her campaign. Along with canvassing and phone banking, The Dems have set up multiple tables in Oxford to register voters despite party affiliation as well as setting up debate watch parties and a final election watch party at the Lyric.

“We are going to do pole watcher training. You know Trump’s been saying the last few days, he’s been talking a lot about the election being rigged and encouraging his supporters to go to minority precincts and essentially intimidate voters and so I’ve had people actually contacting me saying I want to be a pole watcher to make sure this doesn’t happen so there is a lawyer, a woman here in town, who’s going to do a pole watcher training session the Sunday afternoon before the election so that we can try and have people at the poles to try and keep an eye on things.” said Hemmins.

The Lafayette County Democrats understand the election is right around the corner and it is time to put their feet to the pavement in this primarily conservative republican state.