Against all odds, Democrats look to steal a final seat in Trump's Dixie stronghold
President Donald Trump did not have time to visit buried veterans in Arlington Cemetery on Veteran's Day, but he'll be in Elvis Presley's birthplace the Monday after Thanksgiving in an attempt to shore up the stumbling runoff campaign of incumbent Republic Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.
With a racially insensitive wisecrack about public hanging (Democratic opponent Mike Espy is black), Hyde-Smith put back in play what once looked like an assured seat in the heart of Trump's Dixie base. Her opponent, the secretary of agriculture under President Bill Clinton, attacked Hyde-Smith during their debate on Tuesday, claiming her comments are about "another blackeye for Mississippi." WalMart also decided to withdraw its financial support for the senator, who was appointed six months ago to replace the retiring Thad Cochran. With the runoff slated for Nov. 27, a photograph of Hyde-Smith wearing a Confederate cap has cast further doubt on her racial views.
The much-awaited televised debate proved to be a walking-on-eggshells experience for both of the nervous candidates. The incumbent's main message was that voters should go to Trump.com to get tickets to a 5 p.m. election-eve rally in Tupelo, home of the Presley birthplace museum, and an 8 p.m. rally in Biloxi, a coastal gambling resort, on Nov. 26. Espy hammered at her record on health care and depicted her as rooted in the state's racist past. Neither candidate scored a knockout. Hyde-Smith focused on "conservative Mississippi values" as defined by Trump. Espy's performance, while competent, came short of the obvious breakthrough that would provide a needed turnout boost.
The White House and Mississippi Republicans are laboring to make these Trump trips look like something other than a rescue mission. Indeed, a come-from-behind victory by Espy would be historic on two scores. First, he would be the first black Mississippi senator since Reconstruction. Clearly, Espy is trying to duplicate the watershed victory scored by Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama last December, when crossover voters in usually Republican suburbs ignored Trump's last-ditch on behalf of accused pedophile Roy Moore.
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