is that off base? i think it s a tougher battle, because alabama is more metropolitan, more suburban areas just as steve gave in his excellent analysis. he can go anywhere in america, just break it down in the way a native can appreciate. but you look at how this has to break for mike espy. indeed, he has to get some white moderate crossover voters? is that going to happen? are mississippians going to be inta embarrassed enough by cindy hyde-smith s ongoing performance trying to justify her comments about public hangings in the state with a terrible history of racial violence. is the embarrassment that she s brought to the state over the past month going to cause people to turn and to vote for mike ese espy who attracts more
mississippi, how can people vote for someone who joked about public hangings? who went to a segregation academy? who i believe it s been reported her daughter did or does as well. and you already see, i don t know that you can say there s a cause and effect but yesterday two nooses were found hanging on two different trees at the state capitol. the nooses were put up to protest and highlight cindy hyde-smith and her statement. that was a protest move, i just want to be clear what was behind that. no, thank you. how can people vote for cindy hyde-smith? i have spoken to a lot of mississippians about their choice today as playing out, and some voters that i hear from are embarrassed by cindy hyde-smith, they don t like how she basically has been in candidate hiding the entire time. her handlers have been keeping her from speaking out about what she actually believes. so we really don t know what she stands for. we know what senator wicker stands for and the governor
heard of public hangings, he didn t make that association. but tell us why so many people do, why lynching and voting are so closely tied together. well, certainly. june, the interesting thing about the history of lynching in this country is it s a kind of litmus test that there are americans who know virtually nothing about this entire history of was what one historian referred to as a festival of violence. did you say a festival of violence ? a festival of violence. wow. these are macabre rituals in which people were not just hung, they were hung, their bodies were burned, they were ritually castrated, and the historian w.e.b. dubois wrote about an incident in atlanta when he walk down the street and saw a butcher displaying the knees of a man who had been lynched in his window as a kind of
saving you hundreds of dollars a year. and ask how you get xfinity mobile included with your internet. plus, get $200 back when you when you buy a new smartphone. xfinity mobile. it s simple. easy. awesome. click, call or visit a store today. just when you thought it was over, i m here to remind you that election day is still upon us, with a senate showdown in reliable red mississippi. tomorrow voters are heading to the polls again for a runoff between republican senator cindy hyde-smith and democratic challenger mike espy. understanding the stakes, president trump is heading down there today to head two rallies for hyde-smith. over public hangings, past praise of a confederate soldier and suppressing voter turnout. here to discuss, joe trippy, working with the espy campaign,
all right, martin savidge, thank you very much. i want to get your reaction, simone, to the latest defense by the trump team, take a listen to laura trump, the president s daughter-in-law. this is nothing new. the democrats scream racism at a republican contender in any field across the country. so this is nothing new. listen, cindy hyde-smith apologized for the remarks. i think if you watch the way it happened, i think a lot of the takesen out of context and blown up out of proportion. i didn t realize that donald trump was moonlighting as a strategist. welcome she s works for the president s re-election campaign. interesting. look, i think the facts are here that we have a tape, and i know there are many folks in the trump orbit who like to deny things on tape. we have a tape of the current senator saying what she said about public hangings. we also have her track record where she has vote, she literally support policies against protecting those with