ELECTION/HURRICANE/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An official with President Donald Trump’s campaign says they are canceling a trip to Mississippi because Hurricane Florence is approaching the southeastern coast of the U.S. Michael Glassner, Chief Operating Officer of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., announced the news Monday [9-10-18]. The Trump campaign said last week that he would hold a ‘Make America Great Again’ rally this Friday in Jackson, and that he would speak there for a Republican senator he has already endorsed. Cindy Hyde-Smith was appointed to serve temporarily when longtime Republican Sen. Thad Cochran resigned in April. She faces three challengers in a nominally nonpartisan November special election, and the winner will serve the final two years of the six-year term started by Cochran.”
-The Associated Press, “Mississippi Trump Rally Canceled as Storm Nears East Coast,” The New York Times online, September 10, 2018