In 2015, Eubanks won a highly contested Republican primary race against the incumbent legislator W. E. "Gene" Alday, who carried the support of the DeSoto County political organization run by Milton Kuykendall, who stepped down later in 2015 as the public school superintendent. Eubanks then defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Harold D. Harris in the November 3 [[general election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://americanmajority.org/blog-2/dan-eubanks/|title=Dan Eubanks Wins Mississipi State Rep. Primary: 'Huge Earthquake'|publisher=Americanmajority.org|date=October 23, 2015|accessdate=October 10, 2017}}</ref> | In 2015, Eubanks won a highly contested Republican primary race against the incumbent legislator W. E. "Gene" Alday, who carried the support of the DeSoto County political organization run by Milton Kuykendall, who stepped down later in 2015 as the public school superintendent. Eubanks then defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Harold D. Harris in the November 3 [[general election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://americanmajority.org/blog-2/dan-eubanks/|title=Dan Eubanks Wins Mississipi State Rep. Primary: 'Huge Earthquake'|publisher=Americanmajority.org|date=October 23, 2015|accessdate=October 10, 2017}}</ref> |