At debate: Public hangings, African despots, pre-existing conditions and ducking the media

[Tactical Peek]

Familiar themes repeat at debate: Public hangings, African despots, pre-existing conditions and ducking the media

By Larrison Campbell and Bobby Harrison

On Tuesday night, after just under 10 minutes of questions, U.S.
Senate candidate Mike Espy thanked a crowd of reporters and walked away
from the podium.

The two dozen members of local and national media then waited for
Espy’s opponent in the U.S. Senate race, interim Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith,
who had just debated Espy in a room twenty yards from the podium, to
take questions.

Instead, Mississippi’s other U.S. Senator, Roger Wicker, appeared.
Asked if Sen. Hyde-Smith would be speaking to reporters, Wicker was
curt.

“No. I think the debate speaks for itself,” Wicker said.

“I am glad to be here tonight as a spokesman… I think the story
should be about the debate” and not what the candidates said after the
debate, he added.

https://mississippitoday.org/2018/11/20/familiar-themes-repeat-at-debate-public-hangings-african-despots-pre-existing-conditions-and-ducking-the-media/


Would not take reporters' questions as scheduled. Chickened out.


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[bobbieinok]

1. MS is a strange state!

[SunSeeker]

2. That headline, and Mississippi Today article, make it sound like they both ducked the media.

Really poorly written article. But not as biased against Espy as I though it would be for a Mississippi rag.

Sounds like Espy trounced her in that debate.