Watch MSNBC panel mock Cindy Hyde-Smith as ‘the perfect Mississippi candidate for 1854’
On the eve of the special election runoff for a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, a panel on MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace mocked interim Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith for her bungled responses to the racism scandals that have plagued her campaign.
"Hyde-Smith is an embarrassment. She's probably still going to win because it's Mississippi," Rick Wilson said. "She's a terrible candidate, but what you saw on screen -- there is not just somebody who is racially disconnected, she's a bad candidate."
"She shouldn't win," Wilson added.
"She'd be a prefect candidate for the Senate from Mississippi if the election were being held in 1854," suggest columnist Mike Lupica.
"Here she is, trying to run out the clock," he continued. "She's clearly been told, don't say another word, because if you put your foot in your mouth one more time, you might actually lose this thing."
Host Nicolle Wallace, who was communications director in the George W. Bush administration prior to her journalism career, reflected on the context with President Donald Trump doing two campaign events with Hyde-Smith the day before the election.
"A normal Republican president would not get on Air Force One and dignify a candidate like this with the stature of the presidency, but Donald Trump is clearly eager to go."
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