WATCH: Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith scurries away from reporters to avoid explaining her racist remarks

MSNBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard reporting Monday morning from Mississippi said incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith was literally running away from tough questions about her racially charged remarks just days before Tuesday's Senate runoff election, showing footage of the candidate beating a hasty retreat to her car as he continued to try to get a comment.

"For a lot of voters we talked to across state, particularly African-American voters, the issue of race is important to them," Hillyard said, explaining that he'd spent a week unsuccessfully trying to extract an explanation from the senator. "Yet Cindy Hyde-Smith has made the decision to not expand in depth or engage in a conversation about this."

He then cut to footage of Hyde-Smith running away from reporters.

"A lot of people we've talked to across the state that are concerned about your remarks and what you're apologizing for," Hillyard asked as Hyde-Smith tried to escape, fumbling with her car door. "Senator, you stood inside of Jefferson Davis's house and you said 'this is Mississippi history at its best'. Senator, what did you mean by that?"

As Hillyard pointed out that that a third of the Mississippi electorate is African American, Hyde-Smith finally got the door open, waved to the crowd, and drove away as fast as she could.

Watch the video below.