MS-SEN: MLB asks Cindy Hyde-Smith to return $5,000 donation
Major League Baseball is requesting the return of its $5,000 donation to Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s campaign, in the latest blow to the Mississippi Republican ahead of Tuesday’s runoff.
MLB spokesman Pat Courtney said in a statement that the donation “was made in connection with an event that MLB lobbyists were asked to attend” and that MLB has requested that it be returned.
Melissa Scallan, a spokeswoman for Hyde-Smith’s campaign, said she could not comment on the matter at this time. News of the donation was first reported Saturday by the political newsletter Popular Information.
Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate in the spring, faces Democrat Mike Espy in Tuesday’s runoff to fill the remaining two years of retired Republican Sen. Thad Cochran’s term.
Hyde-Smith’s victory in the runoff was once considered a foregone conclusion, but her campaign has been roiled in recent weeks by revelations that she made a controversial allusion to lynching and embraced Confederate history at several points throughout her career.
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