Challenger: Mississippi senator's 'hanging' comment harmful
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ” A white Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi needs to fully explain her comment about a “public hanging,” her black Democratic challenger said Wednesday.Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith made the remark in a video that surfaced Sunday. She praised a cattle rancher at a Nov. 2 campaign event in Tupelo by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”Mississippi has a history of racially motivated lynchings.Democrat Mike […]
