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Ted Cruz has snagged a big endorsement the day before the Mississippi primary: Gov. Phil Bryant. "It's time for Republicans to join together and unite the party for the good of our state and our nation," Bryant said in a statement. "I urge my fellow Mississippians to join me in standing behind Ted Cruz tomorrow." "I'm not going to get out and make a big show about it, but Sen. Cruz was in town today, and I met with him and gave him my endorsement," Bryant said, according to The Clarion-Ledger. "It was a hard choice -- I know so...

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday endorsed Ted Cruz for president on the eve of that state's primary. MORE FROM WSBT.COM Politicians remember #BloodySunday on Twitter Some Rubio advisers say get out before Florida Nancy Reagan's funeral set for Friday Mr. T honors Nancy Reagan in a series of heartfelt tweets Florida poll: Donald Trump leads Marco Rubio Bryant, elected in 2011, is the second state governor to back the Texas senator, who previously won the support of his home state governor, Greg Abbott, in addition to the governor or the territory of Guam, Eddie Calvo. Those are the most...

Monday, March 7, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Concord, NC at the Cabarrus Arena & Events Center. The event is scheduled to begin at 12:00 PM EST. Concord is a city in Cabarrus county, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 79,066. Cabarrus Arena & Events Center Downtown Concord Then Now Monday, March 7, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Madison, MS at Madison County School District (likely means a football stadium). The event is scheduled...

Unfortunately, I just received a call from the national campaign chairman. The event at JCJC has been cancelled. Ted Cruz will not be in Mississippi tomorrow, as he evidently does not feel well. This is difficult news to deliver, but we trust that God has a plan for the campaign and for Mississippi. I wish you all the best.

Thirteen states hold primaries or caucuses over the next two weeks. Of them, Trump is leading polls in nine, according to the RealClearPolitics average, including some of the most important, winner-take-all states. The other states — Hawaii, Maine, Idaho, and Missouri — don't have any recent polls listed on the site. They're also the three states with the fewest delegates to award. And in Maine, Trump has the endorsement of Gov. Paul LePage.

Donald Trump leads all candidates by 24% in Mississippi four days four days before the Tuesday presidential primary election. Via Magellan Strategies and Free Republic: Donald Trump 41% Ted Cruz 17% Marco Rubio 16% John Kasich 8% Ben Carson 5% Undecided 13% Donald Trump will campaign in Madison, Mississippi at the high school on Monday at 7 PM.

"I believe in him first of all because he's a businessman. I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi," Evers told The Clarion-Ledger, adding he sees no evidence Trump is a racist.

There's one main reason why Mississippi’s Charles Evers is endorsing Donald Trump for president. "I believe in him first of all because he's a businessman," the 93-year-old civil rights activist told The Clarion-Ledger Friday. "I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi." "Our catfish is shipped to China and brought back for us to buy. Put a catfish farm here." "All of us have some racism in us. Even me," he added before stating -- in reference to Trump's inflammatory positions on immigration -- that the United States is not obligated in any capacity to support illegal immigrants. Evers became...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump will be in Mississippi the day before the state's primary election. A rally is set for 7 p.m. Monday at Madison Central High School at 1417 Highland Colony Parkway. Doors are scheduled to open at 4 p.m. Trump has rallies scheduled in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday and in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the Mississippi Senate voted to pass SB 2238, which would prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving any money through the state Medicaid program. The amount of money at stake is relatively small — Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood have totaled less than $1,000 per year for the past five years — and the organization’s sole Mississippi location refers women for abortions but does not perform them on-site. But proponents of the bill maintain the principle at stake still warrants action. “You are the company you keep and by Mississippi reimbursing Planned Parenthood through Medicaid, we are keeping that company,”...

HERNANDO, Mississippi — The Senate GOP primary has been a wild ride, but few moments have been as wacky as this one. When a top Mississippi Democrat accused Lane “L.C.” Murray in a Facebook post of using shady tactics to help Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)33% , Murray purportedly left a threatening voicemail to a Republican state senator who posted about the matter on Twitter. But in a phone interview, Murray, who was formerly a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan, says he actually supports Cochran’s challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, and isn’t backing Cochran at all. The saga began...

The Libertarian Party of Mississippi is hosting the first Libertarian Presidential debate featuring 11 of the 12 announced candidates! The first video is the teaser video created by our organization at the request of LPMS Chairman Aaron Barksdale. The second video is the livestream which will also be featured on http://mslp.org/debate/.

When little known Chris McDaniel beat entrenched republican senator Thad Cochran in the first Mississippi primary of 2014 it triggered a series of events that became known simply as “Mississippi ’14“. The entrenched DC republican elite developed a plan to destroy McDaniel before the run-off primary. They decided to call McDaniel a racist, pay for print and broadcast attack ads, request help from black Mississippi pastors, and pay Democrats, preachers and voters to vote in the run-off election. Republicans in DC attacking a republican outsider. Their Machiavellian plan worked. In the run-off Chris McDaniel again beat Thad Cochran with republican...

Tripwire Alert – Understanding Why Mitt Romney is Making Ridiculous Claims About Donald Trump’s Taxes…. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is going “full Mississippi” with claims about Donald Trump’s taxes.  It doesn’t matter that there is no basis for the ridiculous assertions – the truth and/or facts are not what matters when you go “full Mississippi”…. it’s a strategy! The absolute worst thing Donald Trump could do is to respond to it.  Responding to the provocation is exactly what they want.  Dismiss it like you would swat an annoying gnat. Mitt Romney – “The reason that I think there’s a bombshell in there is because...

When little known Chris McDaniel beat entrenched republican senator Thad Cochran in the first Mississippi primary of 2014 it triggered a series of events that became known simply as "Mississippi '14". The entrenched DC republican elite developed a plan to destroy McDaniel before the run-off primary. They decided to call McDaniel a racist, pay for print and broadcast attack ads, request help from black Mississippi pastors, and pay Democrats, preachers and voters to vote in the run-off election. Republicans in DC attacking a republican outsider. Their Machiavellian plan worked. In the run-off Chris McDaniel again beat Thad Cochran with republican...

A Panola County native suspected in another homicide has been indicted in the December 2014 burning death of Courtland teen Jessica Chambers. Quinton Tellis, 27, originally of Courtland, was indicted on capital murder charges by a special grand jury in Panola County as he sat in the Ouachita Parish Jail in Monroe, La., where he is being held in the August death of a University of Louisiana-Monroe exchange student. Tellis is believed to have been the last person with Chambers the night she was killed. The two had a relationship in the weeks leading up to her death, officials said....

A Mississippi man already suspected in a murder reportedly has been indicted in the December 2014 burning death of a 19-year-old woman.  Quinton Tellis, 27, was indicted on capital murder charges Tuesday by a special grand jury in the death of Jessica Chambers, The Clarion-Ledger reported. Tellis is currently being held in the Ouachita Parish Jail in Monroe, La. on charges connected to the August 2015 death of a University of Louisiana Monroe exchange student, the newspaper reported.  Authorities in Panola County, Miss. have scheduled a press conference about the case for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.  Chambers was found on...

A Clarksdale, Mississippi, police officer is in the hospital after being shot. Clarksdale Mayor Bill Luckett said the officer was shot in the head while responding to an armed robbery at a convenience store. The robbery happened at 8:57 p.m. The officer is at the hospital getting treatment. Luckett said two robbers came into the front door of the Corner Grocery at the corner of Sunflower Avenue and Second Street. The men were both wearing masks and one had a pistol. Luckett said the two clerks then ran out the back door. The two men stole money out of the...

Strong storms in the Southeast spawned tornadoes that touched down in Alabama and Mississippi Tuesday, damaging or destroying dozens of homes and at least one church, as well as a prison. No fatalities or major injuries were reported. The worst damage occurred Tuesday in Sapps, Ala., a small community near the Mississippi border approximately 40 miles west of Tuscaloosa.

Many images that came out of Ferguson, Mo., last month looked like scenes from Birmingham, Ala., in the 1960s: the gun-wielding police officers, the sign-carrying protesters and the chants demanding equal treatment and human dignity. But that’s where the similarities ended. For all the righteous indignation it inspired, the Ferguson turmoil has become the latest in a series of flash-in-the-pan causes that peter out without inspiring lasting movements for racial justice. As an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi during the ’60s, what I learned was the importance of organizing at the grass-roots and how even...