President Trump is headed to Mississippi a week from Monday for two rallies ahead of the runoff election in the state the following day.
Trump will hold the first rally at 5 p.m. Central Time in Tupelo, Miss., and the second later in the evening at 8 p.m. in Biloxi, Miss.
On election night last week, neither of the top two finishers, Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and her Democratic opponent, Mike Espy, received 50 percent of the vote, forcing a runoff set for Tuesday, Nov. 27. Hyde-Smith received almost 1 percentage point more than Espy in the midterm elections, and she is favored to win in the runoff.
But the seat that usually swings red might end up being a competitive race as Hyde-Smith recently joked that if one of her supporters invited her to a “public hanging,” she would attend and sit in “the front row.”
Espy, an African-American, is a former congressman and agriculture secretary.
