THREAD: Cindy Hyde-Smith released a video today begging for money for her campaign against @MikeEspyMS for US senate.

Cindy's desperate plea follows the interview Cindy gave to WJTV last week where she embarrassed both herself and Mississippi (see below). 1/
Cindy is correct that Mike is outraising her (though to win, Mike needs enough funds for a GOTV operation to reach MS Democratic voters who became inactive voters since 2008 and to improve his margin of white voters by a hair). 2/
Indeed, @alfranken said yesterday on the @talkingfedspod with @harrylitman @BillKristol and @Slate's @Dahlialithwick that the GOP likely views Mississippi's race for US senate as being close enough to be decided by voter suppression, making Mike's ability to GOTV crucial. 3/
In addition to outraising Cindy, @ProjectLincoln boosted Mike's visibility including name-checks from @stuartpstevens @TheRickWilson @madrid_mike @reedgalen @JenniferHorn @TaraSetmayer and @MollyJongFast and an expected independent Lincoln ad buy. 4/
@BarbaraBoxer's @PacForAChange also produced an independent ad opposing Cindy. 5/
The Front Row PAC produced an independent ad opposing Cindy too. 6/
Also relevant, the Mississippians for Compassionate Care PAC raised nearly $2.6 million to support Initiative 65 (medical marijuana), a ballot measure Cindy vehemently opposes. See cfportal.sos.ms.gov/online/portal/… 7/

A second ballot measure—whether to adopt the In God We Trust flag as Mississippi's state flag instead of Mississippi's 1894 flag (which contains the Confederate flag)—is also expected to increase turnout supporting Espy. 8/
mississippitoday.org/2020/09/02/in-…
The Confederate-style 1894 flag, now retired, is shown in this @ProjectLincoln ad. My sense here in Mississippi is that Mississippi's moderate and liberal voters are overwhelmingly excited to vote on the new flag to ensure the 1894 flag stays retired. 9/
A third ballot measure—whether to remove from the MS Constitution a Jim Crow provision designed to ensure that our statewide-elected state gov't officials are white—is expected to increase turnout supporting Espy even further. 10/
mississippitoday.org/2020/06/29/vot…
As Mike pointed out Saturday, Cindy is lying about her record. Since Cindy refuses to debate Mike, refuses almost all media, and holds no town halls, her campaign is limited to its ability to produce and fund disinformation. 11/

Incidentally, Cindy still has nearly $200,000 she keeps in a state campaign fund that she segregated before Mississippi's campaign finance ethics reform took effect in 2018. 12/
Political candidates in Mississippi could use campaign funds for personal expenses or even disburse campaign funds to themselves as personal income before 2018.

For instance, as ag. commissioner, Cindy bought herself a car using her campaign account: kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-wh… 13/
Mississippi's ethics reform law does not apply to donations made before 2018 kept in a segregated account, such as the ~$200,000 of her donors' money that Cindy keeps in her own segregated account. 14/
Cindy could use that ~$200,000 to support her current campaign instead of keeping it in a segregated, pre-ethics reform account so that she can disburse it to herself as personal income at any time.

Instead, Cindy asks for MORE donations. 15/
Meanwhile, Cindy's donors are still waiting for at least $50,000 worth of refunds they demanded in 2018 when Cindy said "I'd be on the front row" for a public hanging and "it's a great idea" to make voting difficult. 16/
abcnews.go.com/Politics/repub…
And now for that @ProjectLincoln. Wow! 17/

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20 Oct
"We have not had peaceful protests. We have had mobs that burned businesses. People did not deserve that." —@cindyhydesmith

"In Mississippi, we've had lots and lots of protests, but they've all been peaceful, and it makes me proud to be a Mississippian." —@tatereeves
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20 Oct
THREAD: @cindyhydesmith claims that she refused to debate @MikeEspyMS because she is seeing constituents instead, but is she?

No. Instead, Cindy appeared with a Florida PR consultant in an event titled "The New American Civil War." 1/
This reporting comes from @LamarWhiteJr @bayoubrief.

Video of the host's introduction to the event is available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1pHIHdF… 2/
bayoubrief.com/2020/10/19/aft…
After being introduced by the host, Naresh Vissa, Vissa asked Cindy about what she had done for Hindu Americans, and Cindy responded that she had hired Umesh Sanjanwala as her chief aide when she became MS agriculture commissioner.

That video is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1B8bw8P… 3/
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19 Oct
New absentee voting data from Mississippi threaded below. Source: mssos.sharefile.com/share/view/s3d… 1/4
Mississippi absentee ballots REQUESTED, as of October 18. 2/4
Mississippi absentee ballots SENT, as of October 18. 3/4
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17 Oct
MS Gov. Tate Reeves does not even include his chief medical officer @TCBPubHealth in his decisions on public health matters like requiring masks.

This is a stunning betrayal of Mississippians that requires oversight by the #MSLeg. 1/
On follow-up, a PR staffer cut off Dr. Dobbs' press briefing. 2/
Watching the full presser gives the clear impression that Tate's decision to lift Mississippi's mask mandate was against Dobbs' medical advice. 3/
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17 Oct
THREAD w/ highlights from Cindy Hyde-Smith's interview today. Yes, this is the trainwreck you think it is.

The interview starts with asking Cindy why she refused to debate @MikeEspyMS and OMG this is awkward. 1/
Byron asked Cindy about her statement that the home of Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy, is "Mississippi history at its best."

BYRON: "Is this really Mississippi's history at its best?"

CINDY: "It is displayed very well." 2/
The "civil unrest"?

Cindy refers to lynchings in Mississippi as "civil unrest." There's nothing civil about terrorism. 3/
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THREAD—Three GOP 5th Circuit judges revived a TX lawsuit for an order requiring voters to wear masks.

The 5th Circuit has jurisdiction over MS as well as TX, and its implicit holding that states can require voters to wear masks rebukes @MississippiSOS. 1/
foxnews.com/politics/coron…
The TX lawsuit sought many items of relief, all of which the district court and 5th Circuit rejected EXCEPT for the plaintiffs' claim under the Voting Rights Act for a mask mandate at polling places.

The full opinion is here: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7231… 2/
The VRA claim is that failure to mandate masks unduly burdens Texans' of color right to vote because it unduly exposes voters to COVID-19, a disease that disproportionately affects people of color. 3/
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