(Breitbart) A previous leader of the Democratic party confirmed on Thursday that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.
Rickey Cole, the previous leader of the Mississippi Democrat Party, confirmed in a Facebook comment on Thursday.
“Cindy was for Hillary in 2008,” Cole wrote in a Facebook comment on Thursday night.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith urged more women to run for office when asked about Hillary Clinton becoming the first woman nominated for a major political party in 2016.
“We are always supporting women,” Hyde-Smith told the Clarion-Ledger. We want to promote women. I think women make great leaders. The right one would do the right job.”
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