Cindy Hyde-Smith
Hyde-Smith has the distinction of being the first woman elected to Congress from Mississippi but had already courted controversy while fighting the special runoff election versus Mike Espy that would secure her seat.
During the 2018 runoff campaign she appeared with a cattle rancher and said “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be in the front row.” Given the history of lynchings and public executions of African-Americans, the comment faced widespread criticism.
So it would come as little surprise that when it came to contesting the validity of the 2020 election, she would take a front row seat by objecting to Pennsylvania’s electoral votes, as led by Josh Hawley, stating that “the erosion of integrity of the electoral process.”
She also said her constituents “do not believe the presidential election was constitutional and cannot accept the Electoral College decision.”
