This win for the GOP in Mississippi furthers the party’s Senate majority.
Mississippi voters on Tuesday elected controversial Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith to a full Senate term, putting an end to a tumultuous runoff election, the last federal election of the 2018 midterms.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, an incumbent appointed to office in April to fill longtime Republican Sen. Thad Cochran’s seat, defeated Democrat Mike Espy, a former U. S. secretary of agriculture under Bill Clinton, to become the first woman elected to the position in the state’s history. Hyde-Smith was already appointed to the Senate by Mississippi’s Republican governor, Phil Bryant, after Cochran resigned but faced an election to fill the remainder of his term.
