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Mike Espy, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, is worried that as many as 600,000 Mississippians could lose health-insurance coverage as President Donald Trump continues his effort to remake the U.S. Supreme Court.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mike Espy raised more money on Saturday than any Mississippi candidate for federal office has raised in any one day in history, the campaign said. The record-breaking flurry of campaign donations came in the wake of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and President Donald Trump’s vow to appoint a replacement.
When Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves created Restart Mississippi, a commission to advise him on reopening the economy during the COVID-19 crisis, he chose 16 business leaders and corporate executives who have personally given more than $330,000 to his various political campaigns since 2008.
The Mississippi Legislature reconvened today amid a fight over who should decide how to spend $1.25 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds—the governor, with advice
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch plans to sue China, accusing the country of “malicious and dangerous acts that caused deaths, health injuries and serious economic loss from the COVID-19 crisis.”
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