Major League Baseball requested the campaign of Cindy Hyde-Smith, a United States senator from Mississippi, return a $5,000 donation made by MLB lobbyists Friday.
On Sunday, Cesar Brioso of USA Today reported the decision was made based on controversial comments Hyde-Smith made earlier this month.
"If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row," she said while standing alongside cattle rancher Colin Hutchinson.
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