Could Democrats pull off another Deep South surprise in Mississippi Senate race?Jon Ward, Yahoo News Photo Staff
September 21, 2018, 5:00 AM EDT
Democratic consultant Joe Trippi helped Doug Jones win a Senate seat in Alabama last winter, and he thinks his party might be able to pull off another surprise in the Deep South again this year in Mississippi.
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Trippi is a media adviser to Mike Espy, the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in the Magnolia State. It’s essentially the same role Trippi played for Jones when the Democrat beat Roy Moore — the hard-right Republican battling sexual-assault accusations — in a Senate special election there last December.
Chris McDaniel, a state senator, is one of two Republicans running in a special election Nov. 6 to replace Sen. Thad Cochran, a Republican who retired last spring for health reasons. Although he doesn’t have Moore’s personal baggage, McDaniel is cut from the same cloth politically, and his persistence in the race over the opposition of more mainstream Republicans is what gives Espy supporters hope.
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