Republicans love the Mississippi senator who joked about lynching because she's got a 'good heart'
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Republicans across the country have decided to double down on their support for Cindy Hyde-Smith, the U.S. senator from Mississippi who made a disgusting and racist remark about lynching on the campaign trail earlier this month. Hyde-Smith is running againstRepublicans love the Mississippi senator who joked about lynching because she's got a 'good heart'
Republicans across the country have decided to double down on their support for Cindy Hyde-Smith, the U.S. senator from Mississippi who made a disgusting and racist remark about lynching on the campaign trail earlier this month. Hyde-Smith is running against Democrat Mike Espy, a black man, to keep the seat she was appointed to when former Senator Thad Cochran resigned. She was at a campaign event when she joked that she’d be on the “front row” of a “public hanging,” if one of her supporters (the very person who organized the event) were to invite her. After receiving much backlash (after all, it’s a completely gross and inappropriate thing to say, especially given Mississippi’s history of lynching), Hyde-Smith refused to apologize. And her party is not only standing behind her; it’s decided to throw more money into the ongoing race, now moved into a runoff between Espy and Hyde-Smith that will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 27. According to The Hill, Republicans are airing TV ads beginning on Thursday, as well as looking to bring in Donald Trump in order to get Hyde-Smith over the finish line and maintain their majority in the Senate. Of course, they are also gaslighting Mississippians by insisting that she’s a “good person,” even though we know perfectly well what kind of person would say this sort of thing. At a press conference on Monday, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant said this: «I could tell you all of us in public life have said things on occasion that we could've phrased better,» Bryant said. «But I know this woman, I know her heart and I knew it when I appointed her. I know it now. She meant no offense by that statement. There was nothing in her heart of ill-will.» Read more