Mississippi Republicans still nostalgic about lynchings.

“If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row”- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith says in Tupelo, MS after Colin Hutchinson, cattle rancher, praises her.

Hyde-Smith is in a runoff on Nov 27th against Mike Espy. pic.twitter.com/0a9jOEjokr

— Lamar White, Jr. (@LamarWhiteJr) November 11, 2018

So, the incumbent senator from Mississippi, who is heading into a runoff against an African-American opponent, is joking about public hangings in front of an apparently all-white crowd. In Mississippi. https://t.co/x5PnlC0tn5

— Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz) November 11, 2018