Republican and Mississippi win 53 Senate seats – Chosun.com

Entry 2018.11.28 14:36
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The Republican Republican victory in the United States, which took place on December 27, was won by Republican Senator Hyde Smith of Mississippi. As a result, the Republican party won six more seats than the Democratic party in the midterm elections.

As Republicans won 51 seats and Democrats won 47 seats in the June 6 mid-term elections, Florida Republican candidate Rick Scott was named Republican and this time Hyde Smith in Mississippi, C & Was 53 places.

US media, including the Associated Press and CNN, announced that Republican Senator Hyde Smith was likely to win the Mississippi Midfielder Final. Hyde Smith, a former Mississippi Republican Party Senator, Ted Cochran, who went to seek treatment earlier this year, won the election and served for six years.

Hyde Smith, who had been very popular in Mississippi early in the campaign, had a controversy over racist remarks. Four days before the mid-term elections, he told the black candidate, Espy: "If I invite Espie to his" public hanging ", I'll sit in the front row."

"Open Hanging" recalls the story of the black public hanging without trial after black slavery. Hyde Smith's remarks have been a big controversy because the state of Mississippi, where 38% of the population is black, has a history of sick racism.

Subsequently, Hyde Smith did not win a majority in mid-term elections last Friday. In Mississippi, a law requires a final vote if you do not get the majority of votes: Hyde Smith, 41.5% and Suzy, 40.6%.

Democratic Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Republican, won 53 seats, six more than the Democrats in the mid-term elections. Two more seats than before the mid-term elections.

Hyde Smith is the first female senator elected in the state of Mississippi as the winner of the mid-term elections.