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Mississippi elects Cindy Hyde-Smith to Senate despite controversial comments

Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith has won Mississippi's Senate runoff race. She defeated Democrat Mike Epsy in an election marred by her controversial remark on attending a public hanging. Caleb Bedillion, government and politics reporter for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, joins CBSN to explain how Hyde-Smith won.
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