Republican Senator Wins in Mississippi Runoff Election

American media predicted on Tuesday evening, December 6, that Cindy Hyde-Smith, the current Republican senator from Mississippi, would defeat Mike Espy, the Democratic Party candidate, in the runoff election. According to Reuters, the runoff election in Mississippi was held on Tuesday. This was the final election within the framework of the U.S. midterm elections. In the Mississippi midterm elections on November 6, none of the candidates managed to secure the required 50 percent majority. With 94 percent of the votes counted in the second round of the Senate election in Mississippi, Cindy Hyde-Smith is leading with 54 percent of the votes over her opponent. With Hyde-Smith's victory, the number of Republican seats in the Senate will increase to 53. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, congratulated Ms. Hyde-Smith on Twitter. The new term of the U.S. Senate will begin in January 2019. Cindy Hyde-Smith was appointed as a senator in April of this year, succeeding a Republican senator who resigned due to old age. Although Ms. Hyde-Smith received the most votes in the first round, she was unable to secure the necessary 50 percent of the votes for direct entry into the Senate and competed in the second round against Democratic candidate Mike Espy. Reuters reports that 59-year-old Cindy Hyde-Smith is the first woman in Mississippi's history to enter the U.S. Congress. According to this report, Republicans have won Senate elections in Mississippi since 1982, and Cindy Hyde-Smith also had the necessary popularity. However, her recent statements regarding public executions had sparked reactions. In this context, the Senate seat in Arizona went to the Democrats; the situation in Florida remains unclear. Millions of Americans headed to the polls for the midterm congressional elections.