she said about public hangings, cindy hyde smith, and praising in effect jefferson davis saying what she said and vaughn quoted. but you spaaid that she herself went to a segregated private school in the 70s and sent her daughter to a segregated private school. and this is an all-white, segregated academy that was set up to avoid integration after integration became the law of the land in the 60s. she attended it and sent her daughter. explain to our viewers the what your article reveals that had not been in my to my knowledge public before. well, we notice that there just went any public references at least recently to where she went to high school. she mentioned her community college and university but not her high school.
to. let s not forget, on election night mississippi was supposed to be in the bag for republicans. they were supposed to win that senate race. we were not supposed to be in a runoff. so what is happening now is because there is a runoff with mike epsy, is that she is doubling down on being trumpan and doubling down on the hateful rhetoric because we re not supposed to have a runoff on tuesday and that is what is happening. look, trump has made race as the epicenter of national politics. he divides us every day on race and now she s taking that on and he s coming on monday and she is a wink and a nod. she knew exactly what she was saying when she talked about public hangings. she knew what it meant and was talking to that base, that 60%, that donald trump base and telling them this is still the old south and don t worry about it. i got you. i see. this is still the mississippi where lynching was a hotbed for
mississippi, republican senator cindy hyde-smith is now expressing some regret after a string of racially charged controversies. the latest, these pictures from 2014. hyde-smith in a confederate cap posing in the home and library of confederate president jefferson davis. her caption, mississippi history at its best! and earlier this month, hyde-smith was caught joking with a supporter about public hangings. if he invited me to a public hanging, i d be on the front row. reporter: initially, she dug in, saying in a statement, any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous. senator, are you familiar with mississippi s history of lynchings? i put out a statement yesterday and that s all i m going to say about it. could you at least explain? i put out a statement yesterday and we stand by the statement and that s all i m going to say about it. reporter: but now, a week later, and with top donors like walmart, at&t and pfizer withdrawing their support an
clearly different, opposite differences between me and my opponent. i wonder what she actually thinks about things. we do not know how it will affect the mississippi race. cindy hyde-smith said she was sorry if her remarks about public hangings offend anyone. she would ask voters to come out and vote for her tuesday, november 22nd, which is not an actually real date. the 22nd is thanksgiving. no democrat has won a senate race in mississippi in more than three decades. before the debate, the political newspaper roll call did the unthinkable. they moved the mississippi senate race from solid to likely republican. now it s up to the voters of mississippi and history. yoinsz is don lad, founder in jackson mississippi. the paper has been breaking news on the senate race all along. thank you so much for joining us tonight. thanks for having me. so i watched this debate last night in which senator hyde
the republican ought to win, she can win it in her sleep. maybe she might do better in her sleep. senator hyde-smith has been trying to explain her public joking remarks about public hangings, aka, lynchings. her comments, definitely joking about making it more difficult for liberal students from certain schools to vote. ha ha. comedy. companies like walmart have been asking the senator s campaign to return their donations. then we got this, smiling wearing a confederate soldiers cap. because why not? last night senator hyde-smith and mike espy appeared in the one and only debate of this election. the only one that for hyde-smith would agree to. in this debate she made clear right from the get-go what sheshlz this election is all about. senator hyde-smith. thank you for watching and listening to this debate tonight. thank you, farm bureau, for putting this debate on. there s two other big events coming up next week on monday fight the night before the