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November 27, 2018, 0:24Washington, Nov. 27 (Prensa Latina) US President Donald Trump has called on Mississippi residents to vote today for Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who has recently received convictions for remarks deemed racist by some critics.
At one of the events held last night in the city of Tupelo, the president said that Hyde-Smith's support would help his administration by highlighting the legislator's support for the policy of his government and such matters as Judge Brett's confirmation. Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.
If we win tomorrow, we will be 53 to 47, said Trump, referring to the correlation of forces that would exist from next January in the Upper House, where his political party managed to retain the majority, although he had lost his superiority in the House of Representatives.
Then, at an event in Biloxi, the president said that he had asked "all citizens of all parties, communities, backgrounds, races, colors, beliefs, religions" to bring their support for Hyde-Smith.
In introducing Trump to his supporters, the country's vice president, Mike Pence, criticized the Democratic candidate facing the legislator and said he was "too liberal for Mississippi".
The senator backed by the two personalities recently aroused much controversy during the broadcast of a video in which she was hiring a Mississippi farmer telling him that he was urging her to a public hanging, she would be in the first row.
This statement has caused great indignation among several sectors of the state, which has a history of racial violence, including the lynching of black people.
According to the National Association for the Progress of People of Color (NAACP), 4,773 lynchings were recorded in the United States between 1882 and 1968, and the largest number of them, 581, had place precisely in Mississippi.
Hyde-Smith's decision to joke about a hanging in a state known for his violent history towards African Americans is unhealthy, said Naacp President Derrick Johnson in a statement.
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