Mike Espy

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi on Tuesday, setting up a rematch with Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, an outspoken ally of President Donald Trump. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE. Republicans hold most major offices in Mississippi, […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Democrat Mike Espy announced Tuesday that he’s running again for U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, setting up a 2020 rematch of a race that churned up the state’s painful racial history. “I can and will do a better job for the people of Mississippi and the United States,” […]

As you no doubt know by now, on Tuesday, in a runoff election in Mississippi, white folk in Mississippi did what white folk in Mississippi do – they elected a white supremacist to serve as their next United States Senator. In the final weeks leading up to the election, Cindy Hyde Smith repeatedly made it […]

Election officials say a Mississippi man collapsed and died on the way to vote with his wife who went back later to cast her ballot. Precinct bailiff Keith Varnado tells The Enterprise-Journal that Emmitt Booth was coming in the door at the South McComb Baptist Church in southern Mississippi to vote Tuesday morning when he collapsed. He […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won a divisive Mississippi runoff Tuesday, surviving a video-recorded remark decried as racist and defeating a former federal official who hoped to become the state’s first African-American senator since Reconstruction. The runoff was rocked by the video, in which Hyde-Smith said of a supporter, “If he […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The last U.S. Senate race of the midterms was coming to a close Tuesday as Mississippi residents chose between a white Republican Senate appointee whose “public hanging” comments angered many people and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary when Bill Clinton was in the White House. History will be made […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Voting was swift and easy in many precincts Tuesday as Mississippi residents were deciding the last U.S. Senate race of the midterms, choosing between a white Republican Senate appointee backed by President Donald Trump and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary when Bill Clinton was in the White House. History […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused attention on the state’s history of racist violence. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety says the nooses were accompanied by […]

We’re coming off of the Thanksgiving holiday and one person who didn’t spend it eating turkey and watching football, is Mike Espy. Tomorrow Nov. 27 is the Mississippi Runoff Election. Espy and his crew have been campaigning and canvasing neighborhoods for a week straight and believe they can win. Both Espy and Cindy Hyde -Smith […]

Mike Espy is in a runoff and Roland Martin says voters can really change Mississippi and the country! Roland Martin talks to Reverend William J. Barber,  who says red states are “really voter suppression states,” and states where people don’t get out and vote. He urges people to get out and vote for who cares […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A white Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi said during a debate with her African-American Democratic opponent Tuesday night that she apologizes to people who were offended when she complimented a supporter by saying she would attend a “public hanging” if the supporter invited her. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s remark was caught on […]

The runoff in Mississippi between Mike Espy and Cindy Hyde-Smith is Tuesday Nov. 27 and Roland Martin emphasizes the importance. Derrick Johnson, President/CEO of the NAACP, calls the runoff a “turnout game” meaning,  “whoever gets their people back to the polls wins.” There are typically 40% less voters who come out during runoff elections, but if […]