Mike Espy to Run for Mississippi US Senate Seat, Setting up Rematch With Cindy Hyde-Smith

Mississippi Democrat Mike Espy stands with family members as he talks to supporters in a crowded auditorium at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi on Nov. 27, 2018. AP Photo/Charles A. Smith, File

Former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy is running again for a senate seat, setting up a rematch with Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who beat Espy in 2018.

Hyde-Smith, 60, beat Espy, 65, by about 66,000 votes out of 907,588 cast in the special general election runoff, which was triggered after neither she nor Espy garnered over 50 percent of the votes in the special general election.