Hyde-Smith casts vote in Mississippi senate race
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(27 Nov 2018) Voting was swift and easy in many precincts on Tuesday as Mississippi residents were deciding the last US Senate race of the midterms, choosing between a white Republican Senate appointee backed by President Donald Trump and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary when Bill Clinton was in the White House. History will be made either way: Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, 59, would be the first woman ever elected to Congress from Mississippi, and Democrat Mike Espy, 64, would be the state's first African-American U.S. senator since Reconstruction. As Hyde-Smith arrived at her polling precinct in Brookhaven to cast her vote Tuesday, she hugged supporters and said "it was wonderful" that President Donald Trump visited Mississippi to rally support for her. She also said she's proud of her campaign. "We have worked very hard, and we feel very good," she said after casting her vote. She had several supporters she knew personally from the community. "We go to church with Cindy," Clinton Allen said. "She's real. She's – we need good Christian leaders up there, and she's a good Christian lady, so, she's our choice. We're going to vote for her – voted for her." But not everyone in her district was behind her. Nicole Martin Jones who voted for Mike espy says the entire process is a "very emotional" one for her. "I just, I believe in the things he talks about and doing for Mississippi, and, it's just – I just believe in him. I do." Mississippi last elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1982, but Espy was trying for the same kind of long shot win that fellow Democrat Doug Jones had nearly a year ago in neighboring Alabama, another conservative Deep South state where Republicans hold most statewide offices. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/7e34f59845bef5d07d938d66fc3f1cdd
