'Race is always the key': Trump dives into cultural firestorm in Mississippi Senate contest

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Washington Post

TUPELO, Miss. —President Trump on Monday inserted himself into a searing racial debate here in the cradle of the Confederacy, barnstorming Mississippi on the eve of a Senate runoff election riven by divergent attitudes here about the legacy of segregation and lynching.

With his forceful and unambiguous endorsement of Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith — whose embrace of Confederate traditions and comments about a “public hanging” have revived painful memories of Mississippi’s dark history — the president again dived into a cultural firestorm.

By yoking himself with Hyde-Smith, Trump is backing a politician who said she would sit with a supporter in the front row of a public hanging, donned a Confederate uniform to promote tourism at Jefferson Davis’s homestead, and graduated from one all-white segregation academy while sending her daughter to another.

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Trump’s decision to swoop into Mississippi aboard Air Force One on Monday to stage two campaign rallies — one here in Tupelo and the second in Biloxi — on the eve of Tuesday’s runoff election underscored the uncertain state of Hyde-Smith’s candidacy.

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The problem for Republicans is that it is always too easy to win the GOP's nomination by playing to the base with overtly racist positions. It is no longer safe for an incumbent to just lie low.

[sandensea]

1. Espy would just need 25% of white voters to win.

I lived in Mississippi for several years, and I know those more thoughtful white voters are there.

It's up to them now.

[at140]

3. Hyde-Smith must be at serious risk to lose..

Doing 2 rallies in one day by tRump confirms it.

[sandensea]

4. Knock wood.

We can only hope and wait.

[rpannier]

5. Wonder if il douche will have the energy to for two rallies

as long as it doesn't rain that should help him
and if he has a cart to wheel him around in, he may do okay

[Marie Marie]

9. Plus Trump just loves doing rallies.

He must be going through severe withdrawals since the mid-terms. In another month or two, he'll be back under the guise of his re-election. Sick bastard just needs the Looove.

[at140]

11. Back in early 2016, I wanted to find out first hand what his rallies

were all about. So when we heard he was coming to Washington state in a nearby town
for a rally, my wife and I obtained passes to attend, which were free of course. We never
saw many presidential candidate show up near our town of Marysville, WA.
Read about our experience here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11470573

[walkingman]

6. I agree. At some point even Mississippi will have to embrace diversity.

[Botany]

2. 37% A.A. in Mississippi and 4% Hispanics

This race should be tight.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

7. Hello: Reagan, Neshoba County, States' rights. Lee Atwater. Fox/Tucker Carlson. Hello.

[Rizen]

8. Dr.Jackass and Mrs.Hyde

Someone had to say it.

[Nitram]

10. What could go wrong?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. "How does he fit in with Mississippi? How does he fit in??" -- Trump on Mike Espy

WhatCouldGoWrongHat Retweeted

Woof

Link to tweet

"How does he fit in with Mississippi? How does he fit in??” — President Trump on Mike Espy

Link to tweet

[Marcuse]

13. Dog Whistle