oh, lord. joyce when eddie runs for office in the state he ll run an attack ad. you watched jones pull off the special election in alabama no, one expected to see a democrat win in beam. does that tell you that there s a powerful movement for change down here or do you believe that was just one off race? no, i don t think it was a fluke at all. doug jones is a friend of mine. he talked about issues. you know, in mississippi just like alabama we have a lot of health issues and health ills. we have these rural hospitals closing because of the lack of medicaid reimbursements. so we talk real issues, rural development, promoting health care. we re here at objection trd, ole miss, i talk to students about the brain drain, student debt. they just want to graduate without all this burdening debt.
Mississippi there s a possibility, as tight as the race is for control of the united states senate as it looks seven, eight weeks out, that there s a possibility that if it ends up in a dead heat, and then you have a special election three weeks later whoever wins mississippi will control the united states senate. that would be interesting. right now all i m doing, i can t speculate on that. we don t know what s going to happen to other races. i m keeping my head down. we re in the bushes. we re getting every vote we can. we have a turn out of the african-american. no doubt about that. also have to have enough cross over votes to compliment that and win. we re doing it in every space. joe, you were in congress. i was too. i don t like to talk about it, but go ahead. think about this. we ve been every year cochran
I ve made this comment earlier, you know, republicans in mississippi are kind of like the alabama football team. they just win. you know, that being said, secretary espey there is a path. it s going to take two main things i think. it will take some national money. you know if you look at the southern senate races that are competitive right now. you have phil brettson in tennessee and beto and o rourke in texas. they have national money coming in. senator espey doesn t have that. that s some good kornacki right there. republicans in alabama were like alabama. they just one until of course doug jones won. those of us who have been around a long time and have lived in mississippi, alabama, georgia, northwest florida, you just look across those states. this is the first time in my lifetime that there is a possibility that, in mississippi, you can have a
First responders are going down the downtown area responding to an emergency call at this hour would simply be too risky. i can tell you the wind is blowing sideways. rain is swirling. it s very difficult to see her. i need goggles to keep my eyes open. these conditions will stay this way over the next several hours. wow. okay. miguel almaguer in the storm. coming up more from our discussion with mississippi voters, including what trump supporters think about his constant attacks on the media. one of my favorite parts is you do word association, fox news. and then every time you go msnbc i would start they would be very polite. which is because we re in the south. we re taught are we not taught be very polite. occasionally break out the bless their heart. i got a lot of that. you re watching a special edition of morning joe live
There were leaders especially in the deep south, particularly republican leaders who attacked the press. you know, this is not new for us in mississippi. i remember a tweet, i can t remember who sent this out, the morning after the 2016 presidential election, but the tweet was something like good morning america, welcome to mississippi. you know, this is the kind of stuff that reporters in mississippi have been dealing with for a while. and, you know, curtis is right, my job as a reporter isn t to, you know, extend sort of that information gathering and portrayal farther than, you know, the facts. exactly. and, you know, that s all i can do. you hear trump supporters constantly, if i m across the state interviewing them, talking about oh, well the fake news stuff, you know, we know how it is. i just keep doing what i m doing and that s all i can do. i just have to focus on the facts. that s the president s side