Colleague: Senator's 'public hanging' remark 'being twisted'
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ” Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker says his Mississippi colleague is being treated unfairly for praising a supporter at a campaign event by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”Wicker says Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s words “are being twisted by her opponent … to malign her character.”Hyde-Smith made the comment Nov. 2, and a video surfaced Sunday. She calls the phrase “an exaggerated expression of regard.”Her words […]
