Democrat Mike Espy said to defeat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the U.S. Senate race on Nov. 3, he will need a historic surge in Black voter turnout. Statewide Results Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican, defeated Mike Espy, a Democrat , in a special election runoff in 2018. Add Mississippi to your list of states to keep an eye on for the next 42 days, because the race for US Senate is looking pretty close, according to new polling. Here’s why ... As Mike Espy chases Cindy Hyde-Smith in polls, race … New poll shows Hyde-Smith up 8 points on Espy in Mississippi Senate race By Bobby Harrison Mississippi Today October 28, 2020 08:34 AM Mike Espy✔ Republican primary candidates 1. The primary was on August 6, 2019, the primary runoff was on August 27, and the general election was on November 5. Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today’s senior capitol reporter, covers politics, government and the Mississippi State Legislature. General election candidates 1. Espy, trying to become Mississippi’s first elected Black senator, has said he needs the African American voter turnout to be more than 35% for him to have a chance to win. Jensen Bohren 3. Live 2020 Mississippi election results and maps by country and district. Biden was leading in both of those states by slim margins. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Mike Espy (D) opposes her in a rematch of a 2018 special election that Hyde won by about 7%. The breakdown of the poll’s respondents is 62% white and 36% African American. The pollster, which has a B/C rating from the respected FiveThirtyEight, which rates national pollsters, sampled 507 Mississippians online using a national survey sample. View Mississippi’s 2020 election results for US President, House of Representatives and other key races and ballot measures. Espy leads 55-44 among early votes, while Biden leads 55-45. In the 2018 special election to replace long-time Sen. Thad Cochran, who stepped down for health reasons, Espy garnered just under 47% of the vote as Hyde-Smith became the first woman elected to represent Mississippi in Congress. Mississippi does not have no excuse early voting, but according to data provided by the office of Secretary of State Michael Watson, a record number 146,000 Mississippians already have voted, using excuses allowed in state law to vote absentee. A few other polls showed Hyde-Smith, running for her first full six-year term, with larger leads. National attention on Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race National attention on U.S. Senate Race By Courtney Ann Jackson | October 5, 2020 at 7:34 PM CDT - Updated October 6 at 11:43 AM Here’s how Mississippi Today readers reacted to the mask mandate being lifted, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. Du kan når som helst endre valgene dine ved å gå til Mine personvernkontroller. Doktor Zoom. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith is "clearly favored to win Mississippi's Senate election." Jimmy Edwards(L) Democratic primary candidates 1. See also: Mississippi State Senate elections, 2019 and Mississippi House of Representatives elections, 2019 Elections for the Mississippi State Senatetook place in 2019. polls. The nationally recognized poll analysis site FiveThirtyEight believes Republican incumbent U.S. Cindy Hyde-Smith(R) (Incumbent) 2. The most recent poll, from late August, is +1 HS with margin of error +/- … She is viewed nationally as a solid favorite in the race. According to The Tyson Group, incumbent Hyde-Smith only holds a 1 percent lead over Espy with 41 percent to Espy’s 40 percent. Neither Mike Espy, the Democratic challenger, … Cindy Hyde-Smith (Incumbent)✔ Espy seizing the chance to tell supporters he believes a win is possible. Mike Espy(D) 3. In fact, Cook lists Mississippi’s Senate race between Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy as ‘Solid Republican,’ meaning the race is not considered competitive and is not likely to become closely contested. Mississippi Senate race results 2020, including votes for Mike Espy and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in each county and district, live maps and polling results. There's A Close Senate Race In Mississippi. 2020 Mississippi Senate Polls 2020 Election Projections - Presidential Elections - Senate Elections - House Elections - Governor Elections To zip directly to the polls or projections for the races you are following, use the helpful "2020 Elections on Demand" tool at the top of the page. 2020 Senate Election Results > Mississippi Mississippi Senate Polls Incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) is favored to win her first full term. Tobey Bartee 2. informasjon om enheten din og Internett-tilkoblingen, blant annet IP-adressen, surfe- og søkeaktivitet ved bruk av Verizon Medias nettsteder og apper. Hvis du vil gi Verizon Media og partnerne våre tillatelse til å behandle de personlige dataene dine, velger du Godtatt. Turnout is expected to be well over one million voters. Mississippi has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976. The same day the Espy campaign announced his Obama endorsement, Hyde-Smith received a tweet of support from Trump, who campaigned for her in Mississippi during the 2018 race. Hyde-Smith defeated Espy, capturing nearly 54% of the vote, but that was by a narrower margin than another Senate race that year, in which Roger Wicker, the Republican, handily defeated David Baria, the Democratic challenger, with nearly 59% of the vote. RCP Senate Map | Senate Polls | RCP House Map | Generic Vote | RCP Governor Map | Governor Polls | All 2020 Polls Bobby has a bachelor's in American Studies from the University of Southern Mississippi and has received multiple awards from the Mississippi Press Association, including the Bill Minor Best Investigative/In-depth Reporting and Best Commentary Column. The filing d… Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has a 52% to 44% lead against Democratic challenger Mike Espy in a Civiqs poll released Tuesday morning — one of the few public polls released in advance of Tuesday’s general election. Support at 54% to 25% for removing a Jim Crow provision from the state Constitution requiring a candidate for statewide office to garner a majority of the vote and to win the most votes in a majority of the House districts to prevent the election from being thrown to the House to deicide. Mississippi Senate - Hyde-Smith vs. Espy. Whoops! But, based on the poll results, Hyde-Smith is garnering 12% of the African American vote, though many question whether she will do that well with Black voters. Yes, We Said Mississippi! Governor Tate Reeves is viewed as favorable by 34% of the respondents and negatively by 49%. Velg eventuelt Administrer innstillinger hvis du vil ha mer informasjon eller ønsker å endre valgene dine. In fact, Hyde-Smith's numbers are outperforming President Donald Trump's in the site's General Election predictions. POLITICO's coverage of 2020 races for President, Senate, House, Governors and Key Ballot Measures. 2018: Hyde-Smith (R) +7.8. We believe that an informed Mississippi is a better Mississippi. Opinion: Can a Black Democrat win Mississippi’s Senate race? Three weeks after the midterm elections, the final Senate race of 2018 is set to wrap Tuesday night in Mississippi. He also writes a weekly news analysis which is co-published in newspapers statewide. We center readers in everything we do, informing–and engaging–Mississippians through reporting, podcasts, events and online communities. Du kan lese mer om hvordan vi bruker informasjonen din, i retningslinjene for personvern og retningslinjene for informasjonskapsler. Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Mike Espy speaks to reporters after voting at a polling place at Highland Colony Baptist Church, November 27, 2018 in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Mississippi will hold a special election on Nov. 6, with candidates from all parties listed on the same ballot. Voters in four Mississippi legislative districts appear set to return to the polls in three weeks for a special election runoff after none of the contests emerged with a … See 2020 primary results Voters can choose to adopt the citizen-sponsored initiative, a legislative alternative or neither. Espy has also said he needs 22% of the white vote — primarily college educated women. Espy, the first Black Mississippi congressman since Reconstruction and the first Black U.S. secretary of agriculture, lost to Hyde-Smith by more than 7 points in a 2018 special election runoff. The Civiqs poll, commissioned by the left-leaning Daily Kos political blog, has a margin of error of 5.3%. The latter emerged victorious, but it was the closest Senate race in Mississippi since … Support for adopting the flag proposed this summer by a legislatively created commission at 61% to 31%. He is president of the Mississippi Capitol Press Corps Association and works with the Mississippi State University Stennis Institute to organize press luncheons. See election results, a county-by-county map and more for the Mississippi U.S. Senate election on Nov. 3, 2020. The latest poll by the Tyson Group shows a 41-40 percent split with Hyde-Smith narrowly leading. Civiqs also released poll results from the swing states of Georgia and Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Founded in 2016 as the state’s first nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom, Mississippi Today’s roots in Capitol coverage have grown to encompass a myriad of beats beyond politics and policy, including education, public health, justice, environment, equity, and, yes, sports. The citizen-sponsored initiative to legalize medical marijuana was not polled, perhaps because of the complexity of the way the proposal is presented on the ballot. The breakdown of the poll’s respondents is 62% white and 36% African American. (WLBT) - A new poll released Monday shows a razor-thin race between Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and candidate Mike Espy. That year, Jimmy Carter edged out Gerald Ford by 2 points, 50% to 48%. 9/13/18 -- This race is slow to take shape.Democrats probably nominated their second-most electable candidate in Mike Espy. Of the people who have voted early in Mississippi, Espy and Biden both hold commanding leads, according to the poll released Tuesday. A poll in late September by the Tyson Group showed Hyde-Smith with just a 1 point lead against Espy, while an internal poll released earlier to Mississippi Today by the Espy campaign showed him down 5 points. Espy and Hyde-Smith faced off in a special Senate election in 2018. JACKSON, Miss. The state’s senior U.S. senator, Roger Wicker, who is not on the ballot this year, is viewed favorably by 36% and unfavorably by 39%. Candidates in U.S. Senate race in Mississippi make closing pitch to voters ahead of Election Day as long lines at polls are expected Rematch set in Mississippi U.S. Senate race Mike Espy’s Senate race in Mississippi is getting a fresh look from Democrats, including Barack Obama. Hyde-Smith not expressing concern. Vi og partnerne våre lagrer og/eller får tilgang til informasjon på enheten din gjennom bruk av informasjonskapsler og lignende teknologier for å vise annonser og innhold som er persontilpasset, for måling av annonser og innhold, for å få publikumsinnsikt og for produktutvikling. Mississippi Senate race could make history 02:11 Betty Lechman, a Biloxi-area resident of five decades, told CBS News' Kathryn Watson that she would vote for Hyde-Smith because she was a … 1. Please reload the page and try again. The 2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a United States Senator from Mississippi.The election was held to fill the seat vacated by Senator Thad Cochran when he resigned from the Senate, effective April 1, 2018, due to health concerns. The same poll has President Donald Trump winning 55% to 41% against former Vice President Joe Biden. Espy, trying to become Mississippi’s first elected Black senator, has said he needs the African American voter turnout to be more than 35% for him to have a chance to win. Mississippi U.S. Senate Election Results Miss. Democrats are trying to flip at least three seats in the U.S. Senate and win the White House to take the 50/50 split with a Democrat Vice President giving them the tie-breaker and the majority. Yahoo er en del av Verizon Media. RealClearPolitics - Election 2020 - Mississippi Senate - Hyde-Smith vs. Espy Latest polls of Mississippi Senate race, from newest to oldest: Hyde-Smith +1 Hyde-Smith +5 Hyde-Smith +8. According to the poll, he is garnering 51% of the female vote to 46% for Hyde-Smith, but overall only 19% of white voters. The Tyson Group poll gave Espy a seven-point lead with female voters and Hyde-Smith a 10-point lead with male voters. Race Analysis. A native of Laurel, Bobby joined our team June 2018 after working for the North Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo since 1984. Get our free newsletter in your inbox every morning. September 21, 2020 02:37 PM. As a nonprofit newsroom, we rely on donations from readers to power our work. Campaigning is looking much different this go around in the Senate race 2.0 for Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy. But some 2020 polls have Espy as close as 1 … 1.1. The 2020 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Mississippi, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Mike Espy and Cindy Hyde-Smith, 2018.