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New video of Cindy Hyde-Smith explicitly advocating for voter suppression of liberal students
This is the most explicit endorsement of voter suppression I've ever heard a Republican say out loud. Stunning.

She's not claiming any issues of voter fraud or other excuses. Just doesn't want liberal students to vote so supports making it more difficult.
The campaign responded: "Obviously, Senator Hyde-Smith was making a joke and clearly the video was selectively edited."
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A total and humiliating capitation to a president with no interest in the truth.

The news media is supposed to inform the public.

They are now being used to disseminate government propaganda.
REMEMBER: When Obama wanted to address the nation on immigration, the networks refused to air it because they believe it would be "overtly political."

What a joke.

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The idea that a Democratic rebuttal or fact-checking will make this better is insulting.

If I break my arm and a doctor gives me a cast, I'm thankful.

If a doctor breaks my arm and hands me a band-aid, it's not a favor.
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Any network that airs this live is knowingly participating in a disinformation campaign
Some conflicting info, but @JenniferJJacobs of Bloomberg says the networks will air this live

This show just how deeply the mainstream media misunderstands Trump and his tactics

@JenniferJJacobs This is what happened when Obama gave a primetime address on immigration in 2014
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1. Can we talk about @redlobster?

Dozens of corporations stopped advertising on Tucker Carlson after he said immigrants made America "dirtier"

Now Carlson is arguing there's a moral responsibility to pay women less than men.

@redlobster is one of the few corps sticking w/him
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Why is @redlobster sticking with Tucker Carlson?
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Cindy Hyde-Smith is projected to win 54% of the vote tonight to Mike Epsy's 46%.

But 10% of Mississippi's voters are disenfranchised due to having criminal records, 3 x the national average.

And 20% of African Americans in Mississippi have permanently lost the right to vote.
Put another way, 1 in 5 Black people in Mississippi cannot vote. That is the highest rate in the US.

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40% of the Mississippi population is Black.

But Mississippi has not had an African American Senator since Reconstruction.

And they have NEVER ELECTED an African American to the US Senate.

Until about the 1920s, the Mississippi state legislature appointed its US Senators.
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Hyde-Smith lost Warren County in the first round, and trails Espy there now. But Wicker carried it earlier this month when he won y 20 points. Lucky for her, she doesn't need to carry it. Though she should want to.
Tidbit: Cindy Hyde-Smith is currently at 63.8% in Lawrence County, just under Roger Wicker (65.3%). #MSSen
Pike County, which is a GOP county, early dump showed 210 votes for Espy and only 3 votes for Hyde-Smith.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith just bailed. Without a second or a wave goodbye to the folk here in Columbus who attended the event. Backdoor. Two days out. For a U.S. Senate seat.
Bus problems for Cindy Hyde-Smith between her two campaign stops this afternoon after slipping out the back door of her first event & avoiding press questions.
Update from Hyde-Smith’s second event of the day in Meridian: “Will you take some questions from the press after?”
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Cindy Hyde-Smith on voter suppression: "And then they remind me, that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea." Nov 2nd in Columbus, MS.
Correction: Video WAS taken in Starkville on 11/03, which is what I had initially reported. There was some confusion, because apparently, Sen. Hyde-Smith has a talent for saying things like this often. @GanucheauAdam
I just received the full-length video. It is 14 minutes and 26 seconds long. Hyde-Smith's statements about voter suppression were, in fact, the 18 seconds posted above. There was nothing taken out of context. Nothing cut or manipulated. Nothing edited.
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NEW: Video unearthed of the shadowy professor/Russian intermediary Joseph Mifsud in early 2017. He says he attended a @Heritage Foundation meeting shortly after the 2016 election. I have reached out to The Heritage Foundation looking for more about their relationship with Mifsud.
From 2015-mid 2016, The Heritage Foundation used Cambridge Analytica to identify new donors. Were they also in contact with Joseph Mifsud who knew the Russians had Clinton's emails?
The video is from a 2017 event for the Russian International Affairs Council.
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