A blast from the past.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — By sunset, newly appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith had been moving for over 12 hours.
When she wasn’t on the Senate floor, where she’d voted the morning of Oct. 5 to begin Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, she was at the National Republican Senatorial Committee offices conducting a tele-town hall and calls with supporters. Most Fridays, Hyde-Smith would be back in Mississippi, campaigning for the special election, just 32 days away. But the Kavanaugh vote held the Senate hostage. Campaigning over the phone would have to do.
Meanwhile, outside the NRSC offices on Second Street, Victoria Lord had also had a long day. The D.C. resident, who came out to protest Kavanaugh’s nomination, had been holding up her “Believe Survivors” poster long enough that the guards inside the building had called the police on her three times.
Lord felt discouraged and angry. That afternoon she had watched Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, announce in a winding 45-minute speech from the Senate floor that she would vote to confirm Kavanaugh, effectively guaranteeing his seat on the Supreme Court. Behind Collins, two Republican women, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va, and Hyde-Smith, sat at desks normally occupied by male colleagues.
Later, Hyde-Smith, who was appointed this spring to fill retiring Sen. Thad Cochran’s seat, would explain the decision to sit behind Collins as a spontaneous “thing to make her feel more comfortable” rather than a calculated move. But having three women fill the camera lens was also a visual argument that Republicans could support Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault, without betraying women.
https://mississippitoday.org/2018/10/24/cindy-hyde-smith-is-her-own-woman-she-just-doesnt-want-anyone-to-know-it/
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