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Trump weighs Mississippi visit on heels of Hyde-Smith 'hanging' remark
By ALEX ISENSTADT
11/14/2018 01:11 PM EST
Updated 11/14/2018 02:39 PM EST
National Republicans are mobilizing to shore up a Mississippi Senate seat that a few days ago was barely on anyone’s radar, with the party poised to spend at least $1 million on a TV advertising campaign and the White House weighing a pre-runoff trip by President Donald Trump.
The burst of activity follows the release of a video last weekend showing Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith joking that if she were invited by one of her supporters to a "public hanging," she would be in "the front row."
Hyde-Smith, who earlier this year was appointed to fill the seat of former Sen. Thad Cochran, is facing Democrat Mike Espy in a Nov. 27 runoff. Espy, a former agriculture secretary, is African-American.
Party officials stressed that plans for a Trump rally weren’t yet finalized, but several people involved in the talks said they expect the event to take place on the eve of the runoff. It would be Trump’s first rally since his nationwide pre-midterm sprint. Trump won Mississippi by nearly 18 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election.
A White House spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
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"In a comment on Nov. 2, I referred to accepting an invitation to a speaking engagement. In referencing the one who invited me, I used an exaggerated expression of regard, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous,” Hyde-Smith said in a statement last weekend. She has refused to elaborate.
White House officials were initially disappointed by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant's decision in March to appoint Hyde-Smith to the seat and warned him that Hyde-Smith's past Democratic affiliation would jeopardize the seat. But the administration soon came around: Trump announced his support for Hyde-Smith in August and flew to Mississippi in October to campaign for her.
Trump weighs Mississippi visit on heels of Hyde-Smith 'hanging' remark
Brehs?
By ALEX ISENSTADT
11/14/2018 01:11 PM EST
Updated 11/14/2018 02:39 PM EST
National Republicans are mobilizing to shore up a Mississippi Senate seat that a few days ago was barely on anyone’s radar, with the party poised to spend at least $1 million on a TV advertising campaign and the White House weighing a pre-runoff trip by President Donald Trump.
The burst of activity follows the release of a video last weekend showing Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith joking that if she were invited by one of her supporters to a "public hanging," she would be in "the front row."
Hyde-Smith, who earlier this year was appointed to fill the seat of former Sen. Thad Cochran, is facing Democrat Mike Espy in a Nov. 27 runoff. Espy, a former agriculture secretary, is African-American.
Party officials stressed that plans for a Trump rally weren’t yet finalized, but several people involved in the talks said they expect the event to take place on the eve of the runoff. It would be Trump’s first rally since his nationwide pre-midterm sprint. Trump won Mississippi by nearly 18 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election.
A White House spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
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"In a comment on Nov. 2, I referred to accepting an invitation to a speaking engagement. In referencing the one who invited me, I used an exaggerated expression of regard, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous,” Hyde-Smith said in a statement last weekend. She has refused to elaborate.
White House officials were initially disappointed by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant's decision in March to appoint Hyde-Smith to the seat and warned him that Hyde-Smith's past Democratic affiliation would jeopardize the seat. But the administration soon came around: Trump announced his support for Hyde-Smith in August and flew to Mississippi in October to campaign for her.
Trump weighs Mississippi visit on heels of Hyde-Smith 'hanging' remark
Brehs?
can't say I'm surprised
about campaigning for a woman who said she'd be front row and center at a lynching 