WaPo - 'Race is always the key': Trump dives into cultural firestorm in Mississippi Senate contest

[TomCADem]

Trump is diving into what was once an easy GOP win.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/%E2%80%98race-is-always-the-key%E2%80%99-trump-dives-into-cultural-firestorm-in-mississippi-senate-contest/ar-BBQ8jls?li=BBnb7Kz

TUPELO, Miss. —President Trump on Monday inserted himself into a searing racial debate here in the cradle of the Confederacy, barnstorming Mississippi on the eve of a Senate runoff election riven by divergent attitudes here about the legacy of segregation and lynching.

With his forceful and unambiguous endorsement of Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith — whose embrace of Confederate traditions and comments about a “public hanging” have revived painful memories of Mississippi’s dark history — the president again dived into a cultural firestorm.

By yoking himself with Hyde-Smith, Trump is backing a politician who said she would sit with a supporter in the front row of a public hanging, donned a Confederate uniform to promote tourism at Jefferson Davis’s homestead, and graduated from one all-white segregation academy while sending her daughter to another.

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Trump’s decision to swoop into Mississippi aboard Air Force One on Monday to stage two campaign rallies — one here in Tupelo and the second in Biloxi — on the eve of Tuesday’s runoff election underscored the uncertain state of Hyde-Smith’s candidacy.

[ProudLib72]

1. Rump's endorsement is usually the kiss of death for a candidate

I'm hoping it will be the same for the nasty Confederate lady, too, but I'm not holding my breath because...Mississippi.

[EffieBlack]

2. Actually, it often helps

His rallies gin up the base and get them out to vote.

Don't underestimate him.

[ProudLib72]

4. In other words, don't believe everything you read on DU?

But, but, but DU said so!

[BootinUp]

3. The fucker is betting that at least 51% of us are racists. nt

[Garrett78]

5. 'Race is always the key'. Indeed. And we shouldn't shy away from it.

It seems popular to suggest we need a white male to be our presidential nominee in 2020. On the contrary, we need to emphasize anti-racism and anti-sexism.

Diminish racism and sexism and we diminish the Republican Party. We can beat the disease but we must be persistent.