Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith sparked fierce backlash over the weekend after cracking a joke that evoked the South’s ugly history of lynchings.
Hyde-Smith, who faces Democrat Mike Espy in a Nov. 27 runoff, made the crass comment while campaigning with a cattle rancher in Tupelo, Miss., on Nov. 2, according to journalist and blogger Lamar White Jr.
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