{"id":27906,"date":"2020-03-12T09:09:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27906"},"modified":"2020-03-12T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:09:49","slug":"the-2020-senate-campaign-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/12\/the-2020-senate-campaign-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 Senate Campaign: Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Mississippi primary that played out yesterday, Mike Espy has won the right for a <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/29\/the-2020-senate-campaign-jockeying-for-position\/#mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Round 2<\/a> with now-Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), having lost the special election to her in 2018 by a <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Mississippi,_2018_(November_27_runoff)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relatively large margin of 7 points<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now we shift focus to November. This campaign will decide what we want the next decade to look like for Mississippi. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MSSen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MSSen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HITdZmoqDv\">https:\/\/t.co\/HITdZmoqDv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Espy (@MikeEspyMS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeEspyMS\/status\/1237548610406899714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mississippi may be the most reliably Republican state in the nation, so Espy can only be hopeful, not confident. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2020\/senate\/ms\/mississippi_senate_hydesmith_vs_espy-7054.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest poll<\/a> I can find suggests Hyde-Smith has a comfortable 10 point lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Mississippi primary that played out yesterday, Mike Espy has won the right for a Round 2 with now-Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), having lost the special election to her in 2018 by a relatively large margin of 7 points. Now we shift focus to November. This campaign will decide \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/12\/the-2020-senate-campaign-mississippi\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27907,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27906\/revisions\/27907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}