Figure of speech.
never mind she was a RAT in 2007 and was a RAT a long time before she switched parties in 2010\2011 ish
Bagster
check this out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3708189/posts?page=9#9
she’s been accused of:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-sen-cindy-hyde-smith-makes-joke-about-public-hanging/
https://thegrio.com/2018/11/21/cindy-hyde-smith-busted-for-once-dressing-as-confederate-soldier/
Her and her campaign should be turning this into, “I was a democrat then”.