Cindy Hyde-Smith might have a problem in Mississippi: McDaniel voters (Resurgent)

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Cindy Hyde-Smith might have a problem in Mississippi: McDaniel voters

by Resurgent Insider
14 hrs-edited

Will McDaniel supporters tank Hyde-Smith next week? They sure don't seem to love her as of right now.

This evening, the Mississippi Senate runoff debate took place between Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and former Clinton Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. The race shouldn’t be close, and possibly, it’s not. But following Democratic Sen. Doug Jones’ victory in neighboring Alabama, and the Democratic win in primary-ejected Mark Sanford’s district in South Carolina, political observers have learned they shouldn’t automatically assume that a Republican handily wins every statewide race going in the Deep South in the current political era. In addition, there have been signs for some time that this race might not end up being a slam dunk the way that, say, Jeff Sessions’ past Senate races in Alabama were.

Yesterday came the latest one—a mention in a New York Times piece covering the race that “A private Republican poll last week found Ms. Hyde-Smith’s lead over Mr. Espy had narrowed to just five percentage points, three people briefed on the data said.” Is the poll real? It would be a hell of a thing for the New York Times to report about the poll without verifying that it does, in fact, exist. But that doesn’t mean its data gives a full or accurate snapshot of what is going on with the race. The probability, though, is that the race is closer than what you would think for a runoff in Mississippi, and there’s a big reason for that: Hardcore supporters of Chris McDaniel who have never gravitated to Hyde-Smith, and perhaps never will.

A lot of mainstream media types seem to be attributing Hyde-Smith potentially being in trouble to her comments in which she used the term “public hanging,” subsequent comments that seemed to cheer suppression of African-American voters, and the emergence of a photo featuring her part-dressed as a Confederate soldier (basically, the theory is, she came off looking like a racist and suffered a drop in support for it).

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