Photo of Hyde Smith wearing Confederate soldier's hat in 2014 resurfaced

A 2014 photo of Cindy Hyde-Smith (R), a Mississippi Senator, wearing a Confederate soldier's hat resurfaced this week, as the senator was facing a public failure following comments that she had made. she had kept on her intended hanging. "

Hyde-Smith had posted a photo of herself on Facebook in 2014, topped with a Confederate soldier's hat on which appeared the Confederate star. She took the picture while she was visiting the home of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, according to his legend.

Other pictures from the album show her holding Confederate weapons and flipping through a historical book.

The publication on Facebook was highlighted in a story on Politico Tuesday.

"Presently exposed, objects related to the daily life of the Confederate soldier, including weapons," wrote Hyde-Smith about the Davis estate, which is now a historic site. "The history of Mississippi at its best!

The Mississippi is deeply divided over its Confederate history, with some retaining monuments and relics from that period, others claiming that Confederate symbols mean a brutal legacy of white supremacy and racism.

It seems that Cindy Hyde Smith poses proudly with a Confederate hat and musket. pic.twitter.com/X5hWNs1bEe

– Shaun King (@ shampoo) November 20, 2018

To all fools "Why is everything about race", I would like to introduce you again to Confederate Cindy. She proudly stated that she would attend a public hanging, approved the electoral repression and asserted that the Confederate Museum is "the history of Mississippi at its best". It's 2018. https://t.co/s8wD9lK7CE

– Francis Maxwell (@francismmaxwell) November 20, 2018

The Hyde-Smith campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

The Facebook photos were launched in the wake of a widespread reaction as a result of a video that showed Hyde-Smith at a support event saying that she would be "in the forefront" if the person who invited her had asked her to attend "a public hanging" .

Hyde-Smith said that she had made this comment jokingly and that she had repeatedly refused to comment on the case, beyond a statement describing the remark as a " exaggerated expression of respect "for a partisan.

Hyde-Smith will face Democrat Mike Espy on Wednesday, Nov. 27. The former Secretary of Agriculture of President Clinton wishes to become the first African-American Senator of the State since Reconstruction.

The two men are scheduled to meet during a debate Tuesday at 8 pm. AND.

Civil rights groups, including the NAACP, have called the commentary "public hanging" deeply inappropriate given the history of African-American lynching by Mississippi.

Walmart said Tuesday that it was ending its financial support to Hyde-Smith after the video broadcast.

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