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The liberal media have been trying desperately to make the Mississippi Senate runoff a fight between a “moderate” Democrat in Mike Espy and raging racist in Cindy Hyde-Smith. First, they tried to claim she said she would love to be a witness to a lynching, then, among other things, they lied and claimed she sent her daughter to a segregated school. Now, according to CNN on Tuesday, Trump saying Espy was too “far-left” to “fit in” with Mississippi was a racist dog whistle and evidence of Hyde-Smith’s true self.
In order to understand the context of Trump’s comment, here it is: “Cindy's far-left opponent, he's far left. Oh, he's out there. How does he fit in with Mississippi? I could go over this. But how does he fit in?”
In the middle of CNN’s Election Night coverage, during Cuomo Prime Time, host Chris Cuomo turned to senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson and asked her if she saw Trump’s comment as purely racist. “Do you see this as just a left/right play, or was this an allusion to something else also known as color,” he instructed her.
At first, Henderson lamented that “yeah, I mean, it's hard to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt in instances like this…” (Apparently, it was difficult not to mischaracterize what was actually said.) Though clearly reluctant, she did admit that “in this context, he was talking about the idea that Mike Espy is a Democrat.”
“So, I think that's probably what he was talking about more, and this would be the play they would make probably for any Democrat. This idea that they don't fit in with Mississippi values, they don't fit in with Republican and conservative values. So, that's what he was saying there,” she added.
But Cuomo was determined to make his mischaracterization of the President’s comments stick.
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