DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump might return to Mississippi to campaign for a Republican U.S. senator who’s facing a Democrat in a runoff. The White House is looking at holding a rally in Mississippi before the Nov. 27 runoff, but plans were still not definite on Wednesday [11-14-18]. That’s according to a person with knowledge of White House thinking who is not authorized to speak publicly. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith faces Democrat Mike Espy, who is a former U.S. agriculture secretary. Trump endorsed Hyde-Smith in August, and she appeared with him at a rally in early October in northern Mississippi. Gov. Phil Bryant appointed Hyde-Smith as a temporary successor to longtime Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, who retired in April. The runoff winner gets the final two years of a term Cochran started.”
–The Associated Press, “The Latest: Trump Could Return to Mississippi for Senator,” The New York Times online, November 15, 2018