First MS Congresswoman Hyde-Smith Wins Divisive Runoff, Keeps Her Seat

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS ,  Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won a divisive Mississippi runoff Tuesday, surviving a video-recorded remark decried as racist and defeating a former federal official who hoped to become the state’s first African-American senator since Reconstruction. The runoff was rocked by the video, in which Hyde-Smith…