Footage has emerged of a Republican US Senator from Mississippi implying that it is a good idea to make it harder for 'liberal folks' to vote as she spoke to supporters.
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is in a runoff against Democrat Mike Espy on November 27, made the remark at a campaign stop in Starkville, Mississippi earlier this month.
A brief clip appeared on social media Thursday, days after another video showed Hyde-Smith praising someone at a different event by saying: 'If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row.'
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith implied it is a good idea to make it harder for 'liberal folks' to vote while speaking to a small group of supporters
In the latest video, she is heard saying : ‘And then they remind me that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don't want to vote,' Hyde-Smith is heard saying.
‘Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea’.
Both videos were posted on Facebook and Twitter by Lamar White Jr, publisher of The Bayou Brief, a liberal-leaning Louisiana news site. He said he received them from a trusted source, and that neither video was edited to change Hyde-Smith's words.
Melissa Scallan, a spokeswoman for Hyde-Smith's campaign, said in a statement shortly after the video was posted that the senator 'obviously' was 'making a joke and clearly the video was selectively edited'.
Mike Espy is seeking to become Mississippi's first African-American US senator since Reconstruction.
Hyde-Smith, endorsed by President Donald Trump, is the first woman to represent Mississippi in either chamber of Congress.
In the footage, the Republican Senator is surrounded by a small group of supporters
She said maybe Republicans want to make it more difficult for liberal people to vote
Some of those present can be heard laughing as she makes the controversial remark
She has served since April after Mississippi's governor appointed her to temporarily succeed longtime Republican Senator Cochran, who retired.
Danny Blanton, a spokesman for Espy's campaign, called Hyde-Smith a 'walking stereotype who embarrasses our state'.
'For a state like Mississippi, where voting rights were obtained through sweat and blood, everyone should appreciate that this is not a laughing matter,' Blanton said in a statement.
Cindy Hyde-Smith (left) is in a runoff against Democrat Mike Espy (right) on November 27
'Mississippians deserve a senator who represents our best qualities, not a walking stereotype who embarrasses our state'.
The episode comes after that first controversial video was posted to Twitter on Sunday.
In that video, Hyde-Smith is heard saying during a campaign stop in Tupelo on November 2 that if a supporter who was standing next to her 'invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row'.
Critics said the comment had a racial connotation in the context of Mississippi's history of lynching.
Hyde-Smith said in a statement soon after the remark was posted that she 'referred to accepting an invitation to a speaking engagement' and 'used an exaggerated expression of regard'.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, was filmed praising someone by saying: 'If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row'.
Hyde-Smith was standing alongside Colin Hutchinson, a cattle rancher. They were both standing in front of a statue of Elvis Presley, whose birthplace is Tupelo
'Any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous,' she added.
A video that surfaced Sunday shows Hyde-Smith at a November 2 campaign event in Tupelo making the 'public hanging' comment.
She said the phrase was 'an exaggerated expression of regard' for the supporter and 'any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous'.
At a news conference Monday, she would not answer reporters' repeated questions about the 'hanging' comment.
Both Espy and the Hyde-Smith campaign condemned the ad.
'This is the same out-of-state group that is spending millions of dollars promoting Mike Espy and has now taken his campaign to the lowest depths imaginable,' Scallan said. 'It is time for Mike Espy to tell his group to end this appalling, divisive attack'.
Espy said his campaign doesn't control what PowerPACPlus does, and he called the ad 'not helpful'.
Students from the Barack H. Obama Magnet Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi shout 'Vote Mike Espy' with the candidate standing among them
'I can't make them pull it down because we didn't ask them to put it up,' Espy said.
'It's racially divisive. It's something that we didn't endorse, and we'd like them to pull it down'.
Under federal campaign laws, super PACs are not allowed to coordinate with candidates.
The PowerPACPlus website says the group's mission is 'to build the political power of America's multiracial majority'.
Both national parties are putting money and effort into the special election. Hyde-Smith and Espy each received about 41 percent in a four-person field Nov. 6 to advance to the runoff.
Espy in 1986 became Mississippi's first black U.S. House member since Reconstruction. In 1993 and 1994, he was US agriculture secretary.
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Main photo article Footage has emerged of a Republican US Senator from Mississippi implying that it is a good idea to make it harder for ‘liberal folks’ to vote as she spoke to supporters.
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is in a runoff against Democrat Mike Espy on November 27, made the remark at a ...
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