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Blamed her opponent, mike espy. >> for anyone that was offended from my-- by my comments, i certainly apologize. there was no ill-will, no intent whatsoever in my statement. i also recognize that this comment was twisted and it was turned into a weapon to be used against me, a political weapon used to are nothing, but personal and mrirl gain by my opponent. >> no one twisted your comments because the comments were-- it came out of your mouth and i don't know what's in your heart, but we all know what came out of your mouth. >> on election day, hyde smith was less than a point of him. mcdaniels...

And walmart pulling support from hyde-smith and it was news that they had given her money in the first place but they had. here is the way she defended herself in the one and only debate before an organization partisan to her after sort of apologizing for the hanging remark. >> i also recognize that this comment was twisted and it was turned into a weapon to be used against me. a political weapon used for nothing but personal and political gain by my opponent, that is the type of politics mississippians are sick and tired of. >> so evan, there are two things balanced against each other. on the...

Saw -- so cindy hyde smith made the comment about lynching. which is a clear reference to lynching and we know in the south one of the counter measures against lynching were white elites who weren't necessarily any less racist, who were simply looking around saying we can't do this and attract investment. we can't do that. we have to have a veneer of civilization here. people seem to have forgotten that message. there are economic consequences for this kind of thing. and so you go and when companies will go we don't want to invest here or worried about what your values are and don't want the b...

More red than mississippi but democrats are hoping to pull off a major upset on tuesday in the runoff for the u.s. senate seat between cindy hyde smith and former agricultural secretary mike espy. the backlash over the comment that she would sit with the supporter in the front row of a public hanging talked about lynching that targeted black people and she has a pride in the confederacy including a picture of her posing with a confederate cap and rifle in a state that is 38% black and has the chance to elect the first black senator from reconstruction. hyde-smith is royaling mississippi and ma...

He is responding to all of this confluence of information about cindy hyde smith including joking about denying the people the right to vote and thinking that was funny. take a listen. >> how embarrassing is cindy hyde smith. walmart said her recent comments clearly do not reflect the values of our company. now at&t, union pacific and other fortune 500 companies, company after company has rejected her divisive words. we've worked hard to over come the stereo types that hurt our economy and cost us jobs. her words should not reflect mississippi's values either. cindy hyde smith so embarrassing ...