suburban, and he s outperforming what you normally see a democrat there doh there in mississippi. steve, what you re looking at in terms of early returns, are we able to tell anything yet in terms of absolute numbers in turnout, in terms of how each side is happy about the numbers they re seeing turnout in a runoff election it s hard? i want to be able to compare. when we start getting counties in from the delta, heavily black areas where democrats are talking turnout, i want to look at that. i want to look at hines county, the biggest county in the state. jackson, heavily democrat. you expect espy to be getting 70, 5% of the vote here. i want to be able to compare that to some of the rural republican counties. i m looking to see if it s updated. 10% of the vote is in. i think disproportionately from some republican areas, the completed counties we ve gotten. here is another one. espy running at 55%. this is vicksburg on the mississippi river here. you can see just compare to it 20
correctly. judge shopping, forum shopping, though it many frowned upon, really is not new. this has flition national applications. we didn t see hines county from mississippi. but way saw that struck me was judge orrick s assurance in that legislation from the been. given his background he should have recused himself. and he took it a step further. he cited president trump s public comments. so the counties were arguing, we don t know how much money is at stake here, it could be billions. the government says a million for santa clara county. judge orrick said any concern over the scoips erased given president trump s public comments. brian: you are the legal expert. but i heard that if you give the money to a city and state and
correctly. judge shopping, forum shopping, though it many frowned upon, really is not new. this has flition national applications. we didn t see hines county from mississippi. but way saw that struck me was judge orrick s assurance in that legislation from the been. given his background he should have recused himself. and he took it a step further. he cited president trump s public comments. so the counties were arguing, we don t know how much money is at stake here, it could be billions. the government says a million for santa clara county. judge orrick said any concern over the scoips erased given president trump s public comments. brian: you are the legal expert. but i heard that if you give the money to a city and state and
i think all of us were surprised if you talk to cochran in the week winning up to this. thought they were still in the game. got a call with 20% in from a source of the chamber who said we re going to win this thing, but you re right about african-american voters. look, i think turnout crept up across the board. the cochran people say that, but look at hines county right to the west of jackson, you know, that s a 60% african-american county, and thad increased his vote margin there by 7,000 votes, a great indicator what have happened. the question is he needed these votes to win. yes. the question is now he s republican nominee, overwhelming favorite to keep this senate seat in republican hands. what does he do, say thank you and forget or might this be a turning turning point, an elder statesman republican senator, mississippi has the highest percentage of african-american voters, lock around elsewhere in the state where african-americans are often left out. would thad cochran c
a tea party official who referred to chris mcdaniel as our current dayester was doing inside that courthouse with the primary ballots in the middle of the night and the plot only thickens from there. lane initially said she was there with a female friend. it turns out she was accompanied by two men, one of whom is this guy. scott brewster a paid staffer of the mcdaniel campaign. at 11:16 tuesday night while returns were still coming in, brewster said going to come down to hines county. mcdaniel campaign argues this is all perfectly innocent. they released a statement, last night with a close election our campaign sent people to the hinds courthouse to obtain the outstanding numbers and observe the count. in doing so they entered the courthouse and were locked inside the building.