mo4ch:>Walmart wants a refund from Republican senator after 'public hanging' joke | Mo4ch News

Following a campaign-trail joke about a ‘public hanging’, incumbent Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has been dumped by crucial campaign contributors with just one week till the final midterm runoff.Major campaign funders including Pfizer and Walmart are withdrawing their support for incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in response to her morbid joke about public hangings that many see as racist. The loss of this critical support comes at a disastrous time for the campaign, with Mississippi poised to hold the final runoff election of the midterms on November 27.The scandal began when Hyde-Smith joked on the campaign trail that she enjoys the company of one of her supporters so much that if he “invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row.” While her supporters laughed, the joke didn’t sit well with many given Mississippi’s strong historical connection to lynchings and the fact that her opponent, former US secretary of Agriculture Mike Epsy, is black.Some of…