Mississippi’s GOP just got blindsided by an unmistakable message from its own fed-up base

Summary

For closing in on a decade, all a Mississippi Republican candidate needed was an endorsement from Donald Trump and to run 'round parroting the red-meat social phobias he peddled. No need to propose any real policy. No need to push back against anything Trump did or didn’t do – even if it hurt Mississippi – or anything he said, no matter how awful. Heck, no need to really campaign very hard. A blessing from Trump and a pledge to blindly follow him was a Willy Wonka golden ticket for a Mississippi Republican politician. Until it wasn’t. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, the law of political gravity…

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