Should the runoff for the Senate in California had Mayor London Breed facing Governor-elect Gavin Newsom and Newsom said that the history of our State and the lack of lynchings makes their race more competitive Newsom would have been hanged in the media from that uttering to the horrid rallies that would have never quit in downtown San Francisco. Our budget for our Cops would have surfaced at the bankrupcy of every pocketbook across America as the public at-large would have used my town as an example to heat the town squares in every plot across the United States. Yet in the great State of Mississippi, the books have chapter and virtue as Mississippi burning in the runoff for a Senator. Present and accounted for on MSNBC Anchor Ali Velshi asked the Reporter reporting live yesterday from Mississippi about the black voters and the reporter said that the media has not been able to report it as suppression is not the problem it is point blank worse. I listened with an intent ear and knew instinctively that when all my friends were killed by their parents and black people changed their name from genre to characterized state of now their African Americans that across the nation more than my friends would lose their clothing of birth.
As per Wikipedia "Cindy Hyde-Smith is an American politician who is the junior United States Senator from Mississippi, in office since April 2018. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and a member of the Mississippi State Senate." Ouch.
What a timing belt for the engine and the pickle, the maple and the syrup, the sugar and the cane, what a gathering that should have made former San Franciscan Mayor Willie Brown fire on the diagnosis 9th Circuit Court!! Don't worry nothing happened and at the last report Cindy has got it all wrapped up as the reality of hide Smith and get Wesson. Such a sunny delivery to that old Mississippi kitchen, crabcakes and hush puppies from Texas, what a bone.
May my grandmother Nana know that in her rest in piece during her explanation of such things that happened to her friends that I have remembered today to execute this application on my blog to witness with picture and write the treachery of the racist and the bigotry of ignorance in the bigots mouth of Cindy Hyde-Smith and CNBC and MSNBC and all Networks listed by registry through Comcast Infinity still exist in perky prejudice. And, with witness to current events November 24, 2018 I have written to the use of the change of country to the noun that has made black white and read all over just like the Newspaper clipping that my Nana gave to proof of the lynchings personal jigs that her cause for name memories still point my posture to the straight of my spine. That gave pause as my Nana had a bit of a boom in her youth or better said a group of friends that gave the word colored more than water as paintings now make art the drawing of more than a pale drawn down at the rivers. These pictures make clear that should these pictures be colored it would only take digital art, or that increasing draw and the pixel would meld the frame as it is the sepia that makes the date to date a real as my Nana said look for the Pickaninny, she became a puddle after that and yet today, Saturday, November 24, 2018 I am still looking. Oh yea, she said count on the "Jigaboo" it is very important to believe in the "Jigaboo"!!!!
15 hours ago - Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate special election runoff. Hyde-Smith's comments that evoked the state's history of lynchings appear ...
“Mississippi had the
highest lynchings from 1882-1968 with 581.”
Democrat Mike Espy aims to upset GOP Sen. Cindy
Hyde-Smith in a Mississippi Senate race roiled by racial controversy and
Trump’s trade war
Published
Fri, Nov 23 2018 • 1:02 PM EST
Key
Points
- Democrat Mike Espy aims to upset Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate special election runoff.
- Hyde-Smith’s comments that evoked the state’s history of lynchings appear to have made the race more competitive.
- The race will not affect control of the Senate, but it will help to determine how wide the Republican majority is in January.
Sen. Cindy
Hyde-Smith, R-Miss, at the Capitol on June 26, 2018.
Backlash over a senator’s remark
that reopened racial wounds and the GOP’s vulnerabilities on health care and
trade have Democrats hoping they can pull off another Senate election shocker
in the Deep South on Tuesday.
The U.S. Senate special election
runoff in deep red Mississippi pits Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith against
Democratic former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. The candidates vie to
replace longtime GOP Sen. Thad Cochran, whom Hyde-Smith was appointed to
replace earlier this year as failing health forced him to leave office.
The state’s political makeups give
Hyde-Smith an edge. President Donald Trump won Mississippi by
about 18 percentage points in 2016. Mississippi’s last Democratic senator, John
Stennis, a pro-segregation lawmaker who represented a bygone era of Southern
Democratic politics, left office in 1989.
But Democrats see an opening –
however small -- after Democratic Sen. Doug Jones’ upset special election
victory in Alabama last year. Hyde-Smith’s campaign trail comment about
attending a “public hanging” while running against Espy, a black man, evoked
Mississippi’s history of lynchings and put her on the defensive in the
campaign’s final weeks. The Democrat has tried to press an advantage on GOP
efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and Trump’s tariff policy, which
affects a state with a large agricultural presence.
This month’s midterm elections have
already decided control of the Senate. As of now, Republicans will hold at
least a 52-47 advantage in the chamber when the new Congress starts in January.
Still, an Espy victory would narrow the party’s margin for error in the chamber
as it tries to confirm federal judges and potentially pass more changes to tax
and health care policy. Democrats’ control of the House in the next Congress
will already limit the Senate GOP’s legislative ability.
Democrat
Mike Espy answers a question during a televised Mississippi U.S. Senate debate
with his opponent appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., in Jackson,
Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018.
Rogelio V.
Solis | Pool | AP
Republicans have projected
confidence about holding the Mississippi seat even as they take steps to shore
up support for Hyde-Smith. Trump will hold two rallies in the state on Monday
as he aims to motivate GOP voters. The Senate Republican campaign arm has also
spent more than $1 million on media in the state this month.
Hyde-Smith narrowly beat Espy in the
first round of voting on Nov. 6, even as a third major candidate, Republican
state Sen. Chris McDaniel, drew about 16 percent of the vote.
Still, the senator’s comments and
her campaign’s handling of them could help to make the contest closer than
Republicans would like.
“I think the public hanging comments
and probably more importantly Hyde-Smith’s refusal to apologize and fumbling of
her statement about it has energized Espy’s campaign and supporters,” said
Jonathan Winburn, an associate professor of political science at the University
of Mississippi. “I think the comments have hurt Hyde-Smith and made some of her
supporters and donors less likely to at least publicly support her.”
At least six major companies
including Walmart and Pfizer have asked for Hyde-Smith’s campaign to
return contributions, which the candidate has so far shown no
intention of doing. The senator faced criticism for her initial refusal to
address the comments beyond a short written statement, even after reporters
pressed her publicly about it multiple times. At the candidates’ only debate,
which took place Tuesday, she apologized to “anyone who was offended” by her
remarks and claimed they were “twisted” and used as a “political weapon”
against her.
Espy said Tuesday that her comments
gave the state “another black eye that we don’t need” and “rejuvenated old
stereotypes.” In an ad released this week, his campaign targeted the hanging
comments and separate remarks where she joked about making it “just a little
more difficult” for “liberal folks” to vote.
“We can’t afford a senator who
embarrasses us,” the ad says in part.
Trump, for his part, has not wavered
in his support for Hyde-Smith. He has called her comments a “jest” and said she
is a “tremendous woman.”
Health
care and trade war play a role
Hyde-Smith’s comments have dominated
the race’s final days, but policies pursued by Trump and congressional
Republicans have also played a major role. Espy joined Democratic candidates
this year in arguing the GOP’s efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care
Act will jeopardize the law’s popular protections for people with pre-existing
medical conditions.
Hyde-Smith was not in the Senate
last year when her party tried and failed to scrap Obamacare. She supports
repealing the health care law but says she wants to maintain the pre-existing
conditions provisions.
Espy, who served as Agriculture
secretary under President Bill Clinton, has also tried to highlight trade
issues during his bid for an upset. He has criticized the escalating series of
tariffs levied by the U.S. and China, which have led to duties on crops such as
soybeans and contributed to falling agricultural prices.
Trump has called his tariffs on $250
billion in Chinese goods necessary as he tries to strike a new trade deal,
crack down on alleged Chinese theft of intellectual property and reduce the
U.S. trade deficit with China.
On Wednesday, Espy held an event
with Mississippi farmers critical of the tariffs, one of whom his campaign
highlighted as a Republican who plans to support the Democrat.
“Our farmers know I will always put
Mississippi first, no matter what a political party or person says,” Espy said
in a statement Wednesday. “Right now, that means speaking out about these
tariffs which are so harmful to our state.”
Hyde-Smith has supported Trump’s
effort to secure a new trade agreement with China but expressed concerns about
the trade tensions lasting too long.
The senator has tried to put Espy on
his heels by tying him to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and
congressional Democrats. Espy has aimed to cast himself as an independent voice
who will not consider party when making decisions.
He has also faced criticism for
$750,000 he received in 2011 for lobbying for Ivory Coast President Laurent
Gbagbo’s government in 2011. The former Ivorian leader stands accused of crimes
against humanity after violence erupted when he refused to cede power following
a 2010 election. On Tuesday, Espy said he ended his contract after finding out
“how bad the guy was.”
Enthusiasm
vs. expectations
Despite the race’s intrigue, voter
turnout will likely fall from the record levels seen in this month’s midterms.
To win, Espy would likely need to create a turnout differential between
Democrats and Republicans — which the furor over Hyde-Smith’s hanging remarks
could help to drive, Winburn said.
An Associated Press survey found
about a third of the Mississippi electorate is African-American. The voting
bloc may need to make up even a larger portion of Tuesday’s pool, 40 percent,
for Espy to have a chance, the wire service reported.
Still, Trump’s presence in the state
could help to fuel Republican engagement and mitigate a potential Democratic
enthusiasm advantage, Winburn added. An NBC News/Marist poll last month found
60 percent of likely voters in Mississippi approve of the president, including
45 percent who strongly approve. To compare, the president’s national approval
rating was nearly 44 percent as of Friday afternoon, according to a Real Clear
Politics polling average.
In a state where 93 percent of
Republican likely voters approve of Trump, according to the NBC/Marist survey,
winning over GOP voters may prove difficult for Espy.
Ultimately, Winburn expects Espy to
make the race closer than was expected even a few weeks ago — even if he falls
short in conservative Mississippi.
“If Espy were to pull out the upset,
I still think it would be because of turnout differentials rather than
Republicans defecting to Espy,” he said.
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