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Mississippi Secretary of State candidate @SamBrittonMS (R) is running a Trump-Trump-Trump campaign. He’s highlighting the fact that he was one of the first Mississippi officials to endorse Trump, while attacking opponent @MichaelWatson22 as a #NeverTrump candidate. #mselex #MSsos
Important to note: In Mississippi, the secretary of state is not responsible for fluffing Trump’s ego.

The job entails things like training poll-workers (not controlling the voting process); overseeing campaign finance and lobbying issues; dealing w things like voter ID, et al.
Britton isn’t the only MS pol to make Trump the center of his campaign: In 2018, Sen. @cindyhydesmith’s core campaign message was that she voted with Trump 100% of the time.

@TateReeves has similarly emphasized his love of Trump in his #MSGov run.
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Someone hacked the official Instagram for Beauvoir, the historic Sons of Confederate Veterans-run Biloxi home of CSA President Jefferson Davis, which still flies a Confederate flag.

One post reads: “These colors do not run, but they sure do sparkle & look fabulous! #lgbtqa
One follower writes, “If this is real I’ll unfollow and never visit again.”
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In 1990, the @latimes tried to understand Klansman David Duke winning 43% in Louisiana’s US Senate race:

“There‘s a tremendous amount of anger & frustration among working-class whites. ... These people feel left out; they feel gov’t is not responsive to them,” a researcher said.
That isn’t the only familiar quote from 1990 that @AdamSerwer dig up in this story.

The @washingtonpost explained that Louisiana had “a large working class that has suffered through a long recession.”
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
In 1990, Donald Trump explained Klansman David Duke winning 43% in Louisiana’s US Senate race this way:

“It’s anger. I mean, that’s an anger vote. People are angry about what’s happened. People are angry about the jobs. If you look at Louisiana, they’re really in deep trouble.”
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Ashton Pittman
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Can we stop scapegoating “working class” white people with the sins of all white people as a whole?

The data proves this is false. 1/3

(Also, more accurate, less tortured headline: “Trump campaign sees political advantage in using racism to appeal to racist white voters”).
In 2016, high income white counties with medium-educations voted for Trump at higher rates than for Obama in 2012.

But high education white counties with medium incomes voted for Clinton at higher rates than they did for Obama. 2/3
google.com/amp/s/fivethir…
Multiple studies, like this one from The Atlantic, found that race-related fears, anxieties, and bigotries predicted white support for Trump in 2016—and economic anxiety did not.

Here’s another at Vox: google.com/amp/s/www.vox.… 3/3
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