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MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) – Latest news from the US Senate Special Elections in Mississippi (local time):
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The two candidates for the second round of the US Senate of Mississippi gather supporters one day before President Donald Trump's visit to the state to campaign for Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Hyde-Smith met with Republican loyalists Sunday afternoon in a Meridian museum, with the support of US Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa.
Democrat Mike Espy also spoke in eastern Mississippi. It was introduced by Ayanna Pressley, who will join Congress next year after toppling a Democratic outgoing president at a primary school.
The focus on the race intensified after a video of Hyde-Smith praised a supporter telling him that she would attend a "public hanging" for him. Hyde-Smith is excused. She focuses her last argument on preserving "our conservative values" in a state dominated by political conservatives.
Espy told voters that the election of Hyde-Smith would be bad for the state's image and declared that he would support the development of health care and work with both parties .
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US Senator Doug Jones of Alabama tells voters in Mississippi that he and his Democratic colleague Mike Espy could work together to be moderate voices and reduce partisan division in Washington.
Jones spoke Sunday night at a teleconference for Espy's campaign. Espy is a former congressman and former US Secretary of Agriculture. He is trying to overthrow Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith during a second special election round.
Hyde-Smith has been hired temporarily since April, the year of Republican Senator Thad Cochran's retirement. The winner of the second round will win the last two years of Cochran's tenure.
Some of the same people who worked on Jones' 2017 campaign in Alabama are now working on Espy. Jones did what Espy is trying to do: win as a Democrat in a Republican-dominated conservative state.
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1:44 p.m.
President Donald Trump tweeted his support for US Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith a day before she planned to campaign with her Republican compatriot in Mississippi before her clash with a Democrat.
Trump tweeted Sunday that Hyde-Smith "is a remarkable person who is strong on the border, the crime, the army … necessary to D.C." The two men are expected to meet together Monday in Tupelo, in the north-east of the country, and Monday in Biloxi, at a rally on the Gulf Coast.
Hyde-Smith is the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress with a temporary appointment to the Senate since April. She runs into Mike Espy, a former congressman, a congressman, who was a former US Secretary of Agriculture and who is becoming the first black senator in the state since Reconstruction.
Tuesday's winner will win the last two years of a six-year term.
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