Sen. Wicker returns
As expected, Mississippi’s Senate race has been projected by ABC for Roger Wicker, the longtime Republican incumbent. In that race, Wicker is facing Democratic challenger Ty Perkins. In 2018, which was a Democratic-leaning year generally, Wicker still beat his Democratic challenger by almost 20 percentage points.
Of any state, Mississippi has the highest fraction of African Americans, and voting there tends to be very racially polarized. As a result, it has relatively little year-to-year variation in its federal races (although a Democratic gubernatorial candidate did make last year’s gubernatorial election interesting, losing by only 3 percentage points.