race is going well? going well. we re very pleased. people like george will came. we met at a restaurant. wrote a column and he quoted william faulkner and said illusions are really just as powerful and just as real as bones or blood. so many people will get mississippi a democrat from mississippi an african-american from mississippi san illusion but george will according to william faulkner illusions is just as real as bones and blood. we ll get enough votes to win. failing that there s a runoff three weeks later and i got polling, recent polling that shows that we ll do very well on november 6th. if we don t get that 50% plus one we ll move on and show we re beating the incumbent. either way i win. that s what s so interesting. one of the reasons we re here in
month after the have you no decency sir in the andrew mccarthy hearings, joe mccarthy had a 30% approval rating nationally. so if trump gets flown back to moscow, you know, and is given a dacha somewhere, he ll have 30% of the country with him. this is not a political conversation about getting 90% of the country to think something. it s about getting 65 or 70 to think something. all right. still ahead on morning joe, mississippi hasn t sent a democrat to the u.s. senate in more than 30 years. but mike espy is hoping to change that. we ll talk to him about his chances next on morning joe . we ll be back live from oxford, mississippi.
america. every town in mississippi, not every town but except for three or four, every area is within 30,000 people or fewer. and all of those communities were serviced by usda, rural water, rural sewer, rural homes. rural broadband. they all remember what i did then and what we re doing now. but also i ve not run into it years but i m chairman of the board of a $200 million nonprofit. the wall street journal gave us a national award of the most innovative nonprofit in our sphere which is going into low-income districts in mississippi, alabama, tennessee, louisiana and arkansas and building the wealth in those low-income communities. we give mortgages up to $110,000. for mika and joe that s a closet. what are you talking wow.
doug jones, it s going to take a divided republican party and possibly an unpopular candidate who gets in with espey. all right. ingredients are there. it s a possibility. curtis wilke, thank you for being on. thank you, guys. we appreciate it. all right, and coming up on morning joe ahead, hurricane florence made landfall moments ago with trim wind gusts. the center hits wrightsville beach, north carolina, bill weerns kearns joins us with that in just a moment. paul manafort s trial has been delayed twice. it s not set for later this morning. there are reports that a plea deal could be announced. you are watching a special edition of morning joe from oxford, mississippi. oxford, mississippi.
oh boy. wi-fi fast enough for the whole family is simple, easy, awesome. in many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40 s. welcome back to morning joe, live from oxford, mississippi. more now from that conversation we had yesterday with a grouch voters down here in oxford. some backed trump for president and some did not. here s their thoughts. the president has called the press an enemy of the people. do you think the press sometimes acts in ways that makes them the enemy of the people. i don t think that they are the enemy of the people. sometimes i think that they have been given a bad rap in presenting not only just the