Tag: Mississippi

U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., speaks during an event.

Cindy Hyde-Smith faces questions over segregated schooling

Naomi Lim · November 24, 2018 5:54 pm

Married women are decidedly not happy with either party's front-runners, but especially don't like Trump.

2020 Democrats swoop on Mississippi Senate race after GOP candidate slips

Daniel Chaitin · November 21, 2018 11:43 pm

Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi appeared at a news conference at the state Republican Party headquarters in Jackson, Miss., on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, and said repeatedly that she would not answer questions about a video that showed her at a Nov. 2 campaign event in Tupelo, Miss., where she praised a man by saying: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row." Hyde-Smith issued a statement Sunday saying the remark was "an exaggerated expression of regard" for a friend who invited her to speak, and "any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous." Hyde-Smith was appointed to serve temporarily in the Senate after longtime Republican Sen. Thad Cochran retired in April, and she faces an African-American Democrat, Mike Espy, in a Nov. 27, 2018, runoff. Espy is a former congressman and former U.S. agriculture secretary. The runoff winner will serve the final two years of the six-year term started by Cochran.

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Media pounce to call Mississippi Republican racist for a merely clumsy turn of phrase

Kimberly Ross · November 21, 2018 5:04 pm

Mississippi Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, right, smiles next to Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, left, at her ceremonial swearing-in at the Old Senate Chamber on Apr. 9, 2018, in the Capitol in Washington. She was appointed by Bryant to succeed Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., who resigned April 1 for health reasons.

Cindy Hyde-Smith promotes Trump rallies during Mississippi Senate debate

Caitlin Yilek · November 21, 2018 3:12 am

Mississippi Senate Upset?

David Byler · November 21, 2018 2:34 am

Razor grass and pro-choice signs limit the view of patients entering the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, June 30, 2015.

Judge strikes down Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban

Kimberly Leonard · November 20, 2018 10:34 pm

Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith speaks about immigration as an issue in this year's mid-term federal election for the GOP.

Walmart joins other US companies in ditching GOP’s Cindy Hyde-Smith after ‘public hanging’ remarks

Joe Williams · November 20, 2018 5:17 pm

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally at AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minn., Wednesday, June 20, 2018, for Pete Stauber, a Republican congressional candidate running in a traditionally Democratic district.

Back on the campaign trail: Trump heads to Mississippi for 2 rallies ahead of Senate runoff

Katelyn Caralle · November 17, 2018 8:59 pm

Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith speaks about immigration as an issue in this year's mid-term federal election for the GOP.

Mississippi Sen. Hyde Smith dismisses criticism of ‘public hanging’ remark as ‘ridiculous’

Laura Barrón-López · November 11, 2018 10:58 pm

Lightning Round: The Sleeper Senate Races

David Byler · October 30, 2018 12:04 pm

An employee assists a customer with dog food at a Petco Animal Supplies Inc. store in Clark, New Jersey, U.S., on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015.

Everything you need to know about economics you can learn in the pet food aisle

Russ Latino · October 30, 2018 4:00 am

Donald Trump and Brian Kilmeade.

‘Fox & Friends’ host: Trump chose to ‘blow it’ by mocking Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

Katelyn Caralle · October 3, 2018 1:55 pm