Cindy Hyde-Smith touts work with imaginary GOP senator, mixes up election date in disastrous debate

[Judi Lynn]

Cindy Hyde-Smith touts work with imaginary GOP senator, mixes up election date in disastrous debate
The Mississippi Republican couldn't stop looking at her notes, either.
FRANK DALE
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RYAN KORONOWSKI
NOV 21, 2018, 11:49 AM



Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) is doing her best to turn a Senate campaign in a state that President Donald Trump captured by nearly 20 percentage points in 2016 into a close race — and Tuesday’s debate was no exception.

Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate in April after Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) stepped down over health concerns, made headlines earlier this month when she joked about lynching at a campaign event.

Mississippi was the U.S. state with the most lynchings of Black people between 1877 and 1950 — and Hyde-Smith’s Democratic opponent, Mike Espy, is aiming to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since the Reconstruction era.

At least five businesses, including Walmart and AT&T, have asked Hyde-Smith to return campaign donations in the wake of her comments.

More:
https://thinkprogress.org/cindy-hyde-smith-mississippi-republican-senate-debate-mike-espy-runoff-november-27-gop-senator-3bd8502f183e/

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1. How do these incompetent trump types keep falling upward?

This racist is so not qualified to remain a senator.

[Aristus]

3. Are you kidding?

If incompetence didn't exist, neither would Mississippi.

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4. Wow! Yeah. You're right. That got a chuckle out of me.

She so horrible though. She joked about lynching, took white supremacist money, joked about suppression black college students' votes—just out-and-out racist.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Jan Brewer redux