Posted on 11/27/2018 11:41:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Voters in Mississippi on Tuesday will decide a U.S. Senate special election runoff marked by racial controversy and capped by a last-minute visit by President Donald Trump to shore up the beleaguered Republican incumbent.
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a white former state lawmaker who was appointed to the seat in April, is still favored over black Democrat Mike Espy in the reliably Republican state, which has not sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1982.
But she has been engulfed in a political storm since a video surfaced showing her praising a supporter at a Nov. 2 public event by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”
The comment caused an uproar in Mississippi.
Hyde-Smith was also shown on another video joking about suppressing liberal student votes, and photographs have surfaced of her posing with Confederate artifacts in 2014.
Espy, a former congressman and U.S. agriculture secretary, gained new momentum from the furor in a state where 38 percent of residents are African-American.
“She is still the front-runner, but she is a wounded front-runner. She’s not the sure thing she was a few weeks ago,” said Nathan Shrader, a political science professor at Millsaps College in Jackson, the state’s biggest city.
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More fake news.
Stop posting Al-Rooters. They lie like there’s no tomorrow.
At this point, race is a factor in the boiling temperature of water at sea level.
Democrats always play the Race Card.
Agreed. Sometimes I wish we didn’t discuss leftwing crap at all on FR. It just gives ‘em exposure they otherwise would not get.
Thank you Obama...this is all about the cr** you inserted in our society. You set race relations back 50 years.
Unfortunately, sometimes it works. Hopefully it doesn't this time around.
Espy will lose and the Rats will cry racism.
Let ‘em.
It was poor choice of words for Hyde-Smith to say that she’d attend a public hanging as praise for a supporter. She could and should have worded it differently.
But she said the words “public hanging” - not “public lynching”. There is a fundamental difference between the two. The former is not necessarily racist while the latter is.
This is perhaps Reason 39 why I’d never be a good candidate for higher office - but I’d have said to reporters “I’m sorry for the poor choice of words in that I’d attend a public hanging. But let’s be 100% honest here. There was NO racial intent in what I said. I did NOT say I’d attend a public lynching. I strongly resent that some out there have exploited race in this campaign and I ask that the media to do the right thing in reporting what I actually said and NOT what they think I said”.”
Do White Dems think non White Dems will do for them what they did for them
CONFIRMED:
MplsSteve says “... I’d attend a public lynching.”
Yeah, I wouldn’t make it in public office either. /g
They create the story, exploit the story and then all of a sudden it comes a factor in the race. I wish people knew how manipulated they are.
“Race ... factors in final U.S. Senate Race in 2018, in Mississippi”
It sure does—Espy is a racist.
Race, race, race, race, race, race. I, for one, am sick and tired of the race card being played.
Forget the race card, I am sick of blacks thinking their skin tone is their number one priority. Note to blacks: You are people, first and foremost. Next, if you live in the USA, you are Americans. Now, you have your choice of priorities for the next three levels - skin tone, gender, or sexual orientation. After that, conservative/liberal, capitalist/socialist, or religious/not.
I often feel that way....but the advice, "Know thy enemy" always reminds me of why we need the constant reminders.
“Know thy enemy”
Yeah, I get it. I played enough sports in my life that I know that life lesson. However, we here on FR seem to obsess about it a bit IMO.
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