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Trump travels to Corinth to rally for Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith ahead of Nov. 3 midterms. Hyde-Smith's race against Democrat Scott Colom is unexpectedly competitive in a traditionally Republican state.
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Trump rallies in Corinth
President Donald Trump held a rally in Corinth, Mississippi, at the Crossroads Arena on Monday night for Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith as she faced Democrat Scott Colom in a race that Democrats have cast as unexpectedly competitive. Trump defended U.S. military action against Iran at the rally, saying, “They’ve been doing this to us for years, Iran has, they make great weapons, they’re very smart people but we’ve beat the sh** out of them,” and he added, “I don’t feel we had a choice, they were two weeks away from having a nuclear missile.” The rally came with Mississippi’s Senate contest still framed as a test of whether Democrats can overcome a state that Trump won by about 23 points in 2024.
Scott Colom, a district attorney from Columbus, told NPR, “The reality is, Mississippi has never been a lost cause, we’ve been a betrayed cause,” and he said, “The Democratic Party has not been trying to win Mississippi.” Hyde-Smith’s campaign manager Jake Monssen said the senator “gladly accepted when President Trump offered to help rally voters and support her get-out-the-vote efforts,” as the event kicked off a week of campaigning ahead of the November 3 polls.
Black turnout and fatigue
NPR described Mississippi as having the highest share of Black voters in the country, at close to 40%, and it said the state is extremely racially polarized, meaning not enough white voters back Democrats for the party to win statewide.
Scott Colom told NPR that Democrats have spent “hundreds of millions of dollars in other states” while spending “almost nothing in Mississippi,” and he argued, “Let’s stop kidding ourselves, right?”
At a rally for Colom in his hometown high school gym Thursday, former Vice President Kamala Harris joined the closing message, and NPR quoted Celestine Rice saying, “Before, we didn’t realize how bad it was, but now it’s obvious,” and she added, “The moral compass of this country is gone.”
Trump, Hyde-Smith and other Mississippi Republicans gathered in Corinth to motivate the party’s base, and Hyde-Smith told the crowd, “My opponent Scott Colom is the most radical candidate to run in Mississippi for literally our entire lives.”
Hyde-Smith also warned that “Everything we have accomplished, the good things we have done with President Donald Trump, it’s all at stake on Nov. 3,” while Trump told supporters, “I’m here because Cindy’s doing great, but I just got to make sure. I can’t take a chance.”
Race stakes and money
ABC News said the evening rally with Hyde-Smith would kick off a week that continues to pit Trump against former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris, with Mississippi’s Senate race still not considered competitive even as the contest has tightened.
The New York Times reported that the Cook Political Report shifted its rating last week to “likely Republican” from “solid Republican,” and it said Democrats must flip four Republican-held seats to change control of the Senate.
NPR said a last-minute flood of cash to Kansas and hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Senate races in conservative-heavy states like Iowa, Texas, Ohio and Alaska left Mississippi “largely out of campaign investments,” before both parties rushed to spend millions in the final weeks.
The Clarion-Ledger said Mississippi Republican Party Chair Mike Hurst told the crowd, “The left is well-funded…and they will say and do whatever it takes to win,” and Gov. Tate Reeves characterized Colom as a “radical socialist” who didn’t represent “Mississippi values.”
Newsweek said the party sent former Vice President Kamala Harris to Mississippi on Thursday to raise Colom’s profile, and it added that if elected he would become the state’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction ended.