Mississippi Republican Comfortably Wins US Senate Seat

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) at an election night party in Jackson, Miss., on Nov. 27, 2018. Jonathan Bachman/Reuters

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) has comfortably won the U.S. Senate seat of Mississippi at a special election runoff.

Hyde-Smith, 59, secured more than 53 percent of the vote compared to her opponent, Democrat Mike Espy, at a ballot she described to be about “conservative values.”