Mississippi GOP unprepared for Hillary Clinton administration

Leading Republicans all around the country are conceding the defeat of Donald Trump on Nov. 8. But that word hasn't reached this bastion of nouveau Republicanism down here.

Not only is Gov. Phil Bryant, et al, still pushing Trump as their leader but the governor (and the state Republican chairman) went out to Las Vegas to give the Donald aid and comfort for his third disastrous debate with Hillary Clinton.

Bryant, winding up his second term as Mississippi's governor, has proved that a politician whose primary talent is to be a deputy sheriff or a fire insurance investigator, can be elected on the Republican ticket to the state's top office. Though little has been written down here about Bryant's role as a Trump surrogate, it's believed the Mississippi governor has raised nearly $2 million for the Trump campaign.

Meantime, the Mississippi governor and his GOP allies who have been running state government have done nothing to get the state ready to function under the inevitable Clinton Administration.

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