Best matchup for the Dems to win MS in a non-landslide win

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Trump appoints Cochran or Wicker to something, and a special election ensues. The Republican nominee is caught doing what David Vitter did (but worse) and Jim Hood is the Democratic candidate. Hood wins the special election, is re-elected in 2018 (if it was Wicker) and runs for the Democratic nomination, beating Bill De Blasio and Andrew Cuomo in a hard-fought primary. Due to a failing economy (disproportionately affecting the Deep South) and an incredibly incompetent President Trump, Hood beats Trump comfortably, with Obama 2012 level margins in the electoral college, barely eking out a win in Mississippi.

That isn't happening though.

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Not sure if it will be close but they will win Mississippi if its John Bel Edwards and Sherrod Brown vs. Mia Love and Carl DeMaio

Just like that White South Carolina Democrat beat Black Tim Scott, right?

I'm pretty sure Tim Scott's Senate opponents were both black.

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Not sure if it will be close but they will win Mississippi if its John Bel Edwards and Sherrod Brown vs. Mia Love and Carl DeMaio

Just like that White South Carolina Democrat beat Black Tim Scott, right?

I'm pretty sure Tim Scott's Senate opponents were both black.

My bad, you are right!  I was thinking of that Sheheen guy or whatever, but he was running for governor ("Let's send Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from!" as the SC Democratic attendees burst into applause, honoring their local party's history quite well ).

Still, despite some conspiracy theories, a SC GOP primary electorate nominated him, yes?

Yes, but he was originally appointed and faced only token primary opposition.

That said I agree with your overall point that South Carolinians, while often racist, are not so horribly racist that they'd abandon their party loyalty and ideology to avoid voting for a black person.