Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith reelected
Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has been reelected in Mississippi, defeating Democrat Mike Espy in a repeat of a 2018 special election.
Mississippi rematch: Espy challenges Hyde-Smith for Senate
By the time U.S. Senate candidate Mike Espy arrived at a restaurant near a highway that cuts through cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta, he had already received a celebrity’s welcome.
Analysis: Mississippi Senate race draws outside attention
Democratic challenger Mike Espy and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith are both receiving help from out-of-state politicians as they compete for a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi.
Hyde-Smith touts Trump’s economic, ‘America First’ agenda
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith allowed no political space between her and President Donald Trump during her speech at Tuesday’s Lowndes County Republican Women luncheon.
Mississippi senator asks Trump for pumps to ease flooding
Faced with weeks more flooding in a part of Mississippi that’s been underwater since February, one of the state’s U.S. senators on Wednesday asked President Donald Trump to order temporary pumps to the area to begin pumping water over the levee and into the already-swollen Mississippi River.
Mississippi GOP senator sworn in after special election win
A Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi has taken her oath of office nearly three weeks after winning a special election.
Takeaways from Mississippi’s Senate runoff
Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith’s victory in Mississippi’s Senate election runoff was closer than usual in the GOP-dominated Deep South state.
Divisive Senate race ends with Hyde-Smith win
Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith returns to Washington as a solidly loyal Trump supporter after the president stumped for her in what was a divisive runoff marked by racial turmoil over a video-recorded remark Hyde-Smith made decried as racist.
7 nooses found by Mississippi Capitol before Senate runoff
State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused attention on the state’s history of racist violence.
Last US Senate race of midterms up for vote in Mississippi
Mississippi voters are deciding the last U.S. Senate race of the midterms, choosing between a white Republican Senate appointee backed by President Donald Trump and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary when Bill Clinton was in the White House.
Trump sticks with old playbook in return to campaign trail
President Donald Trump brought back the playbook he used during the leadup to the midterm elections, warning of the dangers of illegal immigration and painting Democrats as radical “socialists,” as he returned to the campaign trail Monday to try to keep a Mississippi Senate seat in GOP hands.
Democrat’s path to victory in Mississippi: Black turnout
The special election for a U.S. Senate seat in deeply conservative Mississippi wasn’t supposed to be competitive.
Big names weigh in on final unresolved US Senate election
High-profile politicians are throwing their support to candidates in a U.S. Senate special election runoff in Mississippi, the last unresolved Senate race of the federal midterms.
Hyde-Smith says no ill will, intent behind ‘hanging’ remark
JACKSON — A white Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi said during a debate with her African-American Democratic opponent Tuesday night that she apologizes to people
Slimantics: Dr. Heckle, Missus Hide
We might as well call her Cindy “Hide” Smith.
Only debate set for Mississippi’s hard-fought US Senate race
Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and her Democratic challenger, Mike Espy, meet for their only debate Tuesday night in a contest where the incumbent’s verbal gaffes have dredged up strong emotions about Mississippi’s history of racial violence.
Espy seeks women’s support; Trump to rally for Hyde Smith
For Mike Espy, a high-profile woman helped Espy make the argument Saturday that the Democratic man would be a better choice in Mississippi’s U.S. Senate runoff for the state’s women.
Dem’s lobbying work draws GOP ire in Mississippi Senate race
Republicans in Mississippi’s intensifying U.S. Senate race are slamming Democrat Mike Espy’s lobbying work for an African leader who was later deposed and charged with crimes against humanity.
Senator spoke of ‘difficult’ voting for liberals in video
A Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi is shown in a new video talking about “liberal folks” and making it “just a little more difficult” for them to vote.
GOP senator should explain ‘hanging’ remark, challenger says
A white Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi needs to fully explain her comment about a “public hanging,” her black Democratic challenger says.