Trump plans gatherings in Mississippi to strengthen Hyde-Smith

President Donald Trump will be appearing in Mississippi later this month to strengthen support for Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, whose unique offer to bulletproof for another two years in the House is has become increasingly threatened by public comments involving public hanging and repression of voters.

Trump's visit was in books For several days, the National Republican Senate Committee is expected to spend more than $ 1 million on an advertising blitz to strengthen Hyde-Smith before polling day on November 27.

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Appointed by Governor Phil Bryant in March to occupy the seat of Senegalese Senator GOP Thad Cochran, Hyde-Smith will face Democrat Mike Espy in a second round to elect Cochran's mandate, which ends in January 2021.

But his campaign in the deep red Mississippi has been the subject of scrutiny over the past week, after a video appeared The senator said Sunday on social media that if she was invited by one of her supporters to a "public hanging", she would be in the "front row".

Thursday, another video is surfacing Hyde-Smith told a group of people, "There are a lot of Liberals in these other schools who may not want to vote. Maybe we want to make it a bit more difficult. So, I think it's a good idea. "

The notorious missteps committed in the last weeks of the campaign alarmed national Republicans and fueled Democratic hopes that the party could capture a seat previously inaccessible to the Senate in an extremely conservative state. The president won Mississippi nearly 18 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election.

Trump is scheduled to announce two Make America Great Again rallies for Hyde-Smith on November 26, the day before the elections, in Tupelo and Biloxi. These events will mark the first stage of the president's election campaign since his wild appearance across the country before the mid-term elections on November 6th.

"President Trump is so determined to get the vote for Cindy Hyde-Smith that he has scheduled two rallies in the great state of Mississippi the day before the second round of elections," the campaign director said in a statement. from Trump, Michael Glassner. . "On November 27, the President needs everyone on deck on Election Day to continue to count on Senator Hyde-Smith's outstanding support for his" America First "program."