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The Story: Though Mississippi has long been considered one of the most reliably Republican states in the United States, this year polls indicate a tight...

Charles Johnson’s 15 minutes of infamy may not have run their course. It was enough that some critics — Dr. Harry Edwards and civil rights attorney John Burris among them — called for a boycott of the Giants. … I walked away thinking this is a pretty decent fellow,” he said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Need I even describe Santorum's long record as a senator and in other roles attacking LGBTQ communities? Followed by: Johnson has contributed $ to James Inhofe's campaigns. pic.twitter.com/Oxgt0uWy7t 2014, Johnson contributed $2,600 to Bill Cassidy's campaign for U.S. Senate. Gianforte lobbied against a Bozeman city anti-discrimination law to protect LGBTQ people. He's given over $1 million to groups that are anti-LGBTQ, including some that peddle conversion "therapy." — Darwin BondGraham (@DarwinBondGraha) December 4, 2018 In all, BondGraham cites 13 politicians (including one-time presidential candidate Michele Bachmann) and one PAC among Johnson’s political benefactors. “All of which is to say that Johnson’s recent campaign contributions to a candidate who joked about attending a lynching, and to a PAC that ran racist ads in Arkansas, is contextualized in a long history of his giving to anti-LGBTQ politicians,” BondGraham wrote.

Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. But for Democratic organizers, civil rights activists and African-American elected officials, Mike Espy’s loss in the Mississippi Senate race on Tuesday cut deep. Their ranks include eight black candidates who won in majority white districts. But in some of the highest-profile races, mostly in the South, efforts to elect black Democrats came up short. Mr. Gillum, Ms. Abrams and Mr. Jealous would have been their states’ first black governors — and the only black governors in office in the United States. And had Mr. Espy won in Mississippi, he would have been the first African-American to represent his state in the Senate in nearly 150 years. It wasn’t a win but it was certainly a victory.” The outlook for minority candidates is likely to get clearer next year, when multiple black Democrats could be running for president. ____________________ 2020 Watch • John Kerry tells Harvard students that he’s “going to think about” running for president. • The Willamette Week reports that Senator Jeff Merkley has “quietly asked” state legislators to change a law barring running for two offices at the same time, allowing him to run both for senate and president in 2020. ____________________ What to read tonight • A new twist in the special counsel investigation: Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, admits in court to engaging in negotiations over building a Trump tower in Moscow well into the 2016 campaign.

The Story: The Republican candidate and incumbent Senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith, won a run-off election Tuesday, November 27, earning a full term in the US Senate...

JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI (The Borowitz Report)—Celebrating her election victory on Tuesday night, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith said that, despite predictions that her state was ready to turn the page on its shameful past, “I never lost faith in Mississippi’s racists.” “For weeks, we’ve been hearing national pundits say that Mississippi was ready to enter the twenty-first century,” Hyde-Smith told a crowd of supporters at her victory rally. “Tonight, with your help, we proved them wrong.” Hyde-Smith said that, despite the media’s unearthing of a cavalcade of embarrassing comments and actions from her past, “I never doubted that, at the end of the day, the people of Mississippi would listen to the racist voices in their heads.” Choking back tears, Hyde-Smith thanked her supporters for honoring Mississippi’s storied heritage of hatred and cruelty. “Mississippi voters do not want to tear down the relics of our Confederate past,” she said. “As such a relic, I am eternally grateful.” Exit polls showed that Hyde-Smith performed extremely well with voters who described themselves as bigots, and dominated among those who could not correctly spell “Mississippi.”

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel speaks out on how to reach Republican voters more effectively in 2020. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number…

It’s a bizarre scenario: Why would the executives of a multibillion-dollar corporation like Major League Baseball risk this kind of exposure and ugly press over a small $5,000 donation to a candidate in a part of the country without a Major League team? The billionaire owner of the San Francisco Giants, 85-year-old Charles Johnson, has given Hyde-Smith the maximum allowable donation, $2,700, and his wife has done the same. But fans now have a choice as well. As Marcus Breton from The Sacramento Bee wrote, Charles B. Johnson, principal owner of the San Francisco Giants, is free to support financially the racist people or causes of his choice. It speaks instead, whether we are talking about Major League Baseball or Charles Johnson, to a moral and political choice: to support bigotry with the expectations of favors later on Capitol Hill, hoping no one would notice.What was the MLB thinking? It’s a bizarre scenario: why would a multi-billion-dollar corporation like Major League Baseball risk this kind of exposure and ugly press over a small $5,000 donation to a candidate in a part of the country without a Major League team? It’s not just the Major League Baseball central office that’s supporting this retrograde-Bull-Connor-macaw of a politician. The billionaire owner of the San Francisco Giants, 85-year-old Charles Johnson, has given Hyde-Smith the maximum allowable donation, $2,700 and his wife has done the same. But fans now have a choice as well. As Marcus Breton from The Sacramento Bee wrote, Charles B. Johnson, principal owner of the San Francisco Giants, is free to support financially the racist people or causes of his choice.

Expected live at 5:15 pm ET: Trump holds a campaign rally in Tupelo, Mississippi for Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news.…

View more opinion articles on CNN. In the November 6 election, none of the candidates -- Hyde-Smith, Democrat Mike Espy or Republican Chris McDaniel -- received a majority of the vote. When the runoff takes place this Tuesday, Mississippi voters will offer the nation evidence as to whether "moderate white voters" still exist in the Deep South. These voters may signal if Democrats or moderate Republicans can be viable future candidates in red states, and in rural areas in otherwise purple states. Senator Hyde-Smith is an ultra-conservative politician. Espy, a moderate African-American who has devoted a good deal of his campaign trying to engage the state's business community and white suburban voters who don't like to see Mississippi's image tarnished, is hoping to put together the same kind of coalition as Jones. His goal is to win over a combination of African Americans and moderate suburban whites. The outcome in Mississippi is particularly important since the midterm results in the Senate were much more mixed than in the House. Trump's ability to hold white Republican voters in those states will be crucial to his chances for re-election in 2020, where he will aim to recreate the same narrow Electoral College victory that hinged on the support of Republican voters while making small inroads into Democratic constituencies. It would mean that moderate white voters are not really a major presence in these parts of the country.

The Story: Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R - MS) is defending her seat in a run-off election November 27 against former US Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy...