The Latest: Polls close in Mississippi’s US Senate runoff

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on a U.S. Senate runoff election in Mississippi (all times local):
7 p.m.
Polls have closed in Mississippi as voters in the last midterm U.S. Senate race choose between a Republican backed by President Donald Trump and a Democrat who was agriculture secretary under President Bill Clinton.
The race was rocked by incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith’s video-recorded comment praising a supporter by saying she’d attend a “public hanging” if he inv