MS NOW Guests Invoke Jim Crow to Bash Trump Over Mississippi Election

On Thursday, MS NOW’s On the Line found plenty of ways to make Mississippi’s election about Donald Trump, but activist LaTosha Brown took things a step further by invoking the state’s Jim Crow history to explain the apparent Democratic advantage. 

Host Alicia Menendez updated Brown on the latest vote count, reporting that Democrat Scott Colom was ahead of Republican incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by just 1,724 votes. Menendez credited organizations like Brown’s for spending weeks in Mississippi mobilizing communities and educating voters. 

When asked what a Colom victory would mean for black voters, Brown wasted little time connecting the election to the state’s history of racial discrimination and recent redistricting disputes. 

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