Mike Espy, a Mississippi Democrat whose heated special Senate runoff against Cindy Hyde-Smith in 2018 turned into a nationally watched affair, announced on Tuesday that he will challenge her to a rematch in 2020
Espy, a former US member of the House and agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration, would be the state's first black senator since Reconstruction if elected. Last year, he fell short in his race against Hyde-Smith, losing by 8 percentage points despite her having a string of controversies, many of them touching on issues of race."It's official. I'm running to be Mississippi's next U.S. Senator.
""It's hard to bring good jobs to Mississippi with a United States Senator acting like that," Espy said in the statement on his campaign site.Read MoreIn a response at the time, Hyde-Smith called criticism about her"public hanging" remarks"twisted," saying that"it was turned into a weapon" to be used against her. She said the other video was"selectively edited" and that she had been"making a joke.
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