Mississippi runoff tight
By Matt Viser
November 27 at 9:44 PM
JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Senate runoff election was coming to a cliffhanging close here Tuesday night, with a race remaining too close to call in a state that for decades has been a bastion of conservative politics.
Whatever the outcome, the state will make history by choosing either Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, who would be its first elected female senator, or Democrat Mike Espy, a former congressman who would become its first black senator since just after the Civil War ...
Hyde-Smith’s strategy over the past few weeks has been mostly to avoid the media — leaving through back doors and jogging past cars to avoid interacting with reporters — and tie herself as closely as possible to Trump ...
Tuesday’s winner will fill the last two years of the term of longtime Republican senator Thad Cochran .. and .. run again in 2020 ...
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