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Looking to bolster its Senate majority, the GOP wheeled out its biggest gun Monday in Mississippi as President Trump rallied to bolster Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith ahead of Tuesday’s run-off election. In Tupelo, Mr. Trump said he needs Ms. Hyde-Smith in Washington and urged voters to keep her there. “I’m here to ask the people of Mississippi to send Cindy Hyde-Smith back so we can make America great again,” Mr. Trump said, after some praise for Tupelo’s most famous son, Elvis Presley. “Don’t empower the radical Democrats to return us to the failure of the past.” As expected, Mr. Trump basked...

Let's revisit this post from election week, in which I highlighted a number of notable Republican victors in the media's much-discussed "year of the woman."  Since that piece went live, a number of the tentative outcomes have changed: Young Kim narrowly lost in California, Martha McSally narrowly lost in Arizona (though could end up in the Senate anyway), and despite winning comfortably, Cathy McMorris Rodgers stepped aside from leadership, with Liz Cheney taking her place as the top-ranking Republican woman in the House.  A number of female incumbents from competitive districts also lost by a hair, such Mimi Walters and...

Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has won Mississippi’s Senate runoff, defeating Democrat Mike Espy despite controversy over recent comments. Hyde-Smith had 56 percent of the vote to Espy’s 44 percent when the Associated Press called the race with more than three-quarters of all precincts reporting. The result means Republicans will hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate next year. The runoff for the remainder of Thad Cochran’s term was held because neither candidate got a majority of the vote in a crowded race Nov. 6.

Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican who was appointed to the Senate this year, faces Mike Espy, a Democrat and former congressman, in a special election runoff on Tuesday after neither candidate won a majority on Election Day. The election was held to fill the seat of Senator Thad Cochran, who retired earlier this year for health reasons.

Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has defeated Democrat Mike Espy in Tuesday night's special Senate election in Mississippi, a contest tainted by race-related controversies, NBC News projects.

Final election tonight in Mississippi for the US Senate and a few House races.

Don't be fooled, Mississippi. Democrat Mike Espy is no southern Democrat — he’s a radical liberal with a track record of supporting tax hikes and stifling economic growth with job-killing policies.Espy, who is running in the runoff election for the U.S. Senate against Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, has been able to keep a low profile during the chaos of the 2018 midterms, and now has an outside chance of becoming the next senator from Mississippi. That would be a disaster for the entire country, just as it was the last time we sent him to Congress.Espy was a registered lobbyist for...

A victory for Republican, Trump Supporter, Cindy Hyde-Smith today in the "Run-Off" Senate race in MS would literally be "The Icing On The Trump Cake"!!! Words need not be spoken...it's results that count. Trump helped get these folks elected: - Ted Cruz - Texas - Greg Abbott - Texas - Mike Braun - Indiana - Josh Hawley - Missouri - Marsha Blackburn - Tennessee - Ron DeSantis - Florida - Rick Scott - Florida - Doug Ducey - Arizona - Brian Kemp - Georgia - Henry McMaster - South Carolina - Bill Lee - Tennessee - Roger Wicker - Mississippi...

Two nooses were found hanging at the Mississippi State Capitol on Monday morning around 7:15, according to NBC affiliate WLBT. Hate signs also were found, although it unclear what they said or if the signs referenced the racially charged runoff Senate election taking place Tuesday between Democrat Mike Espy, who is black, and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. State Capitol police did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment. Hyde-Smith has come under fire for her comment about attending a "public hanging" and voter suppression, which her campaign later said was a joke.

Not one but TWO MAGA rallies in Mississippi today in Tupelo and Biloxi for the GOP Senate candidate.

Major League Baseball is requesting a return of a $5,000 donation to a Mississippi Republican candidate for U.S. Senate following her controversial comments and actions ahead of Tuesday's runoff election. Cindy Hyde-Smith has drawn scrutiny for saying at a Nov. 2 campaign event that she would attend a public hanging if invited. Further digging into Hyde-Smith's past has revealed a photo of her wearing a Confederate military-style hat in 2014 along with questions about the white private school she attended in the 1970s.

Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith once promoted a measure that praised a Confederate soldier's effort to "defend his homeland" and pushed a revisionist view of the Civil War. Hyde-Smith, a Republican, faces Mike Espy, a Democratic former congressman and agriculture secretary, in Tuesday's runoff in Mississippi -- the final Senate race to be decided in 2018. The measure, which was unearthed by CNN's KFile during a review of Hyde-Smith's legislative history, is the latest in a series of issues that have surfaced during her campaign, many of which have evoked Mississippi's dark history of racism and slavery. The concurrent resolution was...

The final U.S. Senate race of 2018 takes place Tuesday in Mississippi. It pits a gaffe-prone Republican who has inflamed racial tensions with a comment about a “public hanging” against a former member of President Clinton’s Cabinet with questionable ethics who accepted a $750,000 lobbying contract from an African despot accused of crimes against humanity. * * * In late 1998 Espy was acquitted of all charges by a jury in Washington, with the only white juror insisting that race was not a factor in the deliberations. But even though jurors concluded prosecutors failed to show Espy took anything in...

On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, next week, the voters in the great state of Mississippi will be voting in a "Run-Off" Election to chose a Senator for the US Senate. The Candidates are, Republican, Appointed Senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith vs. Democrat, Mike Espy, a shamed, disgraced & criminal ex-congressman. This election is just not an ordinary run-off. It has great national implications, mainly resulting from a Hyde-Smith victory over Espy, which will insure that POTUS, DJT won a resounding victory in the 2018 Mid-Term Elections over the turmoil bound Democrat Party, who now owns the House of Representatives, one of the...

For the uninitiated, a lot of McDaniel fans feel they got screwed in former Sen. Thad Cochran’s re-election, when the Cochran-Barbour machine in Mississippi worked every conceivable angle to deprive McDaniel—who is regarded as a stauncher conservative but also was accused of racism and may even have appealed to some Mississippi voters as a result of it—of a win. Subsequently, that same machine let a short time pass, Cochran exited the US Senate, and Hyde-Smith—a former Democrat who also has the backing of the same Mississippi GOP establishment—took his place. [...] Not only did Hyde-Smith used to be a Democrat;...

President Donald Trump is defending a Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi who praised one of her own supporters by saying she would attend a “public hanging” if the supporter invited her — a remark that has stirred strong emotions in a state with a history of racially motivated lynchings. Trump said at the White House on Tuesday that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is “a tremendous woman” who loves the people of Mississippi and the U.S. A video published Nov. 11 shows Hyde-Smith praising a supporter in Tupelo by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the...

A review of the fundamentals in the November 27th Mississippi Senate runoff shows that Democrat Mike Espy has a big hill to climb; and the road is relatively flat and smooth for Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. On Election Day neither candidate received the necessary 50% plus 1 vote to win so there will be a runoff between Hyde-Smith who got 41.5% and Espy who got 40.6%. Hyde – Smith could not get to 50% plus 1 vote because there was a major third candidate in the race. That candidate, Chris McDaniel ran as a Republican and drew off 146,000 votes...

Why can’t Cindy Hyde-Smith just shut up? It doesn’t look like Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith is in any real danger in the November 27th United States Senate runoff election in Mississippi; but her foolish tongue has given the Democrats something to campaign on. This is sad, infuriating and so unnecessary. The “offensive” remark was something about attending a public hanging. Of course Mississippi Democrats are trying to turn this into a Hyde-Smith endorsement of lynching African Americans. It's not likely that this will move African Americans to the polls in larger enough numbers to win; but why, oh why can’t Republicans...

Key Vote Description Legislator Score / Vote 2018: 115th Congress 46% 7: Co-Sponsors of the CREATES Act, S. 974✘ Nay Key Vote 7: Co-Sponsors of the CREATES Act, S. 974 The CREATES Act would grant relief in court for generic and biosimilar competitors seeking FDA approval. This would clear the pathway for new drugs to enter the market, drastically reducing prices through increased competition. The cost savings stemming from this legislation could reach between 15 percent and 50 percent of current prices for impacted drugs. Should Leader McConnell bring this bill to the floor, FreedomWorks will substitute the cosponsor...