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,
sink her in a red state like mississippi. this state is much redder than the average state. my presumption is based on the general election results, this ought to be a race where cindy hyde-smith gets between 50% and 60% which tells me she could trop a little bit and still win the race. it would have to be a lot of water to sink a boat like this in mississippi. these comparisons are out of whack with compared to alabama. we have no scandal near as close to what happened in alabama. i was trying to say that without being too wordy at the top, scott. i hear your point. joe, let s talk about something else, though. congress, they re heading back to work, facing potential of a government shutdown, over keeping the government funded. they re facing a deadline of next week to get a deal done. democrats are now pushing to basically tie a measure, tie a bill to protect the mueller investigation with any funding bill. is that a good idea for
and scott jennings, political commentator. joe, you are fighting for espy, an election where the republican candidate faced different but did face controversy. your guy won there. are you anywhere near as confident that you can pull off a win here? it is mississippi. it s a red state. it s going to be tough. cindy hyde-smith has been dropping since all her comments and other things have come to light and we ve been surging. we think it s going to be closer than anybody expected and we think we can eke it out. it s all going to come down to turnout. this race shouldn t have been as competitive as it is, and it is, and that should tell you something about what s happening right now and the problems that cindy hyde-smith and, actually, why president trump had to come down to help save her, try to save her. and we will see.
maybe you want to vote. nkts maybe we just make it a little more difficult. so i think that s a great idea. howell, do you think she s perhaps making those comments because she thinks that is what her base wants to hear? well, sure. i mean, she s a mississippi republican and what we re watching play out in mississippi is a little mini drama to see if enough white republicans will be offended by racial talk to cross over and elect a democratic senator, which is what happened in alabama with doug jones defeat of roy moore. interestingly, joe trippy, the political consultant for moore for doug jones is running the race in mississippi, but alabama is not as retroas mississippi, and that gets to the key demographics of this
that s why he s going to tupalo tomorrow and that s why he s going to biloxi. it s a dramatic end to what s been a really fascinating year for elections. to say the least. in fact, mississippi has not elected a democrat to the senate since 1982. i m looking at the numbers from november 5th and .9% is the differential between hyde-smith and mike espy. the other two combined run up to almost 18%. so give me a prediction, howell. how do you see this playing out? you said she s expected to squeak it out. do you think that s going to happen on tuesday? no, i have to say i don t think it happens, but i want to hedge that by saying the same thing that joe trippy and curtis wilke have been saying and they know the state very well. if the republicans stay home, that creates an opening for a strong democratic turnout to