Cindy Hyde-Smith

Cindy Hyde-Smith
Junior U.S. Senator from Mississippi
Incumbent
Assumed office  April 9, 2018 Serving with Roger Wicker
Appointed by	Governor Phil Bryant
Preceded by	Thad Cochran
Succeeded by	Incumbent (no successor)
7th Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce
In office January 10, 2012 – April 1, 2018
Governor	Phil Bryant
Preceded by	Lester Spell
Succeeded by	Andy Gipson
In office January 4, 2000 – January 10, 2012
Preceded by	W. L. Rayborn
Succeeded by	Sally Doty
Born	May 10, 1959 Brookhaven, Mississippi
Political party	Democrat-turned-Republican (2010)
Spouse(s)	Michael Smith One daughter
Residence	Brookhaven, Mississippi
Alma mater	Copiah–Lincoln Community College University of Southern Mississippi
Religion	Baptist

Cindy Hyde-Smith, born May 10, 1959 (age 67), is the Republican junior U.S. Senator from Mississippi. On April 9, 2018, she succeeded Senator Thad Cochran, who resigned because of health issues. A month earlier, Governor Phil Bryant had announced that Hyde-Smith was his choice to fill the remaining two years in Cochran's term.

Unlike her predecessor nor the state's RINO senior senator Roger Wicker, Hyde-Smith is mostly a strong conservative who has defended President Trump and voted in favor of challenging the "official results" of the 2020 U.S. presidential election following massive election fraud in several states.

Democrat years

McDaniel has accused Hyde-Smith of having voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 presidential primary against Barack H. Obama. At the time Hyde-Smith was a Democrat, but she denies having voted for Clinton.

Party affiliation switch

Hyde-Smith switched from Democrat-to-Republican affiliation in 2010, while she was serving in the Mississippi State Senate. In 2012, she became the state agriculture commissioner.

U.S. Senate

2018 U.S. Senate special election in Mississippi

In the special election to complete Cochran's term on November 6, 2018, Hyde-Smith faces a conservative challenge from state Senator Chris McDaniel and a liberal opponent, African-American Democratic former U.S. Representative Mike Espy, who also served briefly as secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture in the administration of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. President Donald Trump has endorsed and campaigned on behalf of Hyde-Smith, who supported the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.

Liberal derangement

See also: Liberal whining and Liberal logic

After Hyde-Smith made a comment saying she would be "on the front row" if she was ever invited to witness a public hanging, liberals in addition to Epsy's supporters accused her of "racism". Note that Hyde-Smith never mentioned race, rather it was the social justice warriors that did so and accused her on the basis of being "racially insensitive". At least one site published an article highlighting Hyde-Smith's past to prove her "racism."

While on a campaign in Starkville, Mississippi, Hyde-Smith joked about making it harder for liberals to vote. Eliciting high media coverage, many leftists who lack a sense of humor took the comment too seriously.

General election results

In the special election runoff held on November 27, 2018, Hyde-Smith, with more than 53 percent of the vote, defeated Espy. In a rebuke to the liberal accusations, many black Republicans in Mississippi applauded her victory, including Charles Evers, the then-96-year-old brother of the late Medger Evers, a civil rights activist who was murdered by a white supremacist in 1963.

Personal life

Hyde-Smith is a resident of Brookhaven in southern Mississippi. She and her husband, Mike Smith, are ranchers, and they have one daughter. A devout Baptist, Hyde-Smith regularly attends the Macedonia Baptist Church and works as a deacon.

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