NEW: Democratic Mississippi US Senate candidate Mike Espy raised more in one day than any candidate in state history after Justice Ginsburg's death.
His $500,000 weekend haul is more than triple what the GOP incumbent raised over a three month period.
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Along with a record-breaking surge in campaign donations, hundreds of new volunteers signed up this weekend to help the Espy campaign make calls and send text messages to potential voters.
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Mike Espy: "“That’s Mississippi—the landmass that they overlooked. ... So I look at that and think about what’s been done to our campaign by the Democratic establishment in Washington. They’re overlooking this Mississippi possibility—they really are.” mississippifreepress.org/5880/mike-espy…
Mike Espy's top issue is health care. He wants to build on the Affordable Care Act with lower prices and greater options for more people, he says.
But Justice Ginsburg's death means the ACA is now in peril with the court set to hear a case in November. mississippifreepress.org/5880/mike-espy…
By July, Democrats had given more than $47 million to Amy McGrath in Kentucky.
Espy, who only had $1.35 million by the same point, was down just 5 points in the latest poll, after being down 8 in another.
He has laser focused his campaign on health care. mississippifreepress.org/5880/mike-espy…
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith: “Justice Ginsburg devoted her life to the law, becoming one of the most respected & influential women in our time...President Trump & the Senate now have the solemn duty to fill that vacancy, a process that should not be delayed." mississippifreepress.org/5880/mike-espy…
“Democratic party leaders have ignored our race for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi. They don’t think a Black man in Mississippi can win—and they continue to count out the South and Black voters." —Mike Espy
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Facts: @MikeEspyMS would be Mississippi's third Black US senator—but the first since 1881.
You read that right. 1881.
He'd be the first MS Dem to win a Senate seat since 1982.
MS's last Democratic senators spent most of their careers as segregationists.
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Latest polls of Mississippi Senate race, from newest to oldest:
Hyde-Smith +1
Hyde-Smith +5
Hyde-Smith +8
The most recent poll, from late August, is +1 HS with margin of error +/- 1.
You can see why Espy thinks national Dems should pay more attention.
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The Supreme Court is (as always) on the ballot, but now more than ever before.
And so is health care for 100s of thousands of Mississippians.
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