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MAGA senator’s comeback now a ‘mathematical impossibility’: legal expert

MAGA senator’s comeback now a ‘mathematical impossibility’: legal expert

An election lawyer fresh from a deep-red state's ballot count says one embattled MAGA senator has hit a dead end.

Norm Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who served as counsel to House Democrats during President Donald Trump's first impeachment, told progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen in a Saturday episode of his YouTube show that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) has no realistic path left to beat Democratic challenger Scott Colom. "It's a mathematical impossibility at this point for Senator Hyde-Smith," Eisen said.

Eisen, who said he spent three days in Mississippi and planned to head back the next day, pegged Colom's lead as "approaching a 3,000-vote margin." He compared the count to the 2000 Florida recount he worked on, when the gap bounced around in the hundreds....