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10 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
An open question in the Espy/Hyde-Smith race is whether @MSTODAYnews will report issues or merely reprint statements from campaign managers, prognosticators, Mike Espy, and Henry Barbour.

Cindy hopes they're too scurred she'll call them a "blog" again.
But, for example, they could report whether Mississippi was ready to restart and reopen in April and May, when Cindy said so and Mike disagreed.
Or they could report whether Cindy lived up to her word that the Senate's votes on the HEROES Act and the SMART Act would come before late summer "for sure."
They could even report these two former agriculture chiefs' records and platforms on agriculture, since the Trump trade war hit Mississippi's farmers hard, leaving many dependent on federal subsidies even before the pandemic.
But again—Cindy hopes that reporters at @MSTODAYnews (and everywhere else, for that matter) won't do any reporting of their own and will, instead merely report what the candidates' campaigns say.

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