Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) laughingly repeated sexist jokes as the keynote speaker at a 2011 Mississippi Farm Bureau convention as the audience guffawed in a recently unearthed video.

It’s the latest controversy to hit the candidate on the eve of a special election as President Donald Trump stumped for her in Mississippi on Monday evening.

“If your wife is knocking on the front and the dog is barking at the back door, which one do you let in first?” Hyde-Smith asked in her convention speech, quoting men she referred to as “crusty gentlemen.” The punchline? “The dog, of course. It quits barking when it gets inside.” (Watch the video above, beginning at 9:25.)

She also repeated a joke about a man implicating his wife as a witness to an armed bank robbery, apparently as a ploy to convince the robber to shoot her in the head.

Hyde-Smith told the jokes at the Farm Bureau convention when she was Mississippi’s commissioner of agriculture, an elective position.

She was making the point that some men had a difficult time imagining her in the role. But she made no negative comments about the jokes she repeated, which triggered laughter from the audience.

She also said that, before she was voted in as the commissioner, she made a campaign stop with her female driver at Gautier’s men’s club. When she and her female driver were asked if they were the pole dancers, she told them “No,” she said, laughing. “I took Gautier real big. And that’s all we’re going to say about that.” (At 8:35 in the video.)

Hyde-Smith has already been accused of racism, and she lost campaign contributions for joking earlier this month that she’d be willing to watch a “public hanging” (she later apologized) and for posing in a Confederate hat. It also was revealed that Hyde-Smith’s parents sent her to a segregated school.

But the convention video, posted on the Farm Bureau’s YouTube channel and reposted on Twitter, is the first major event triggering charges of sexism against Hyde-Smith.

Some defenders on Twitters said Hyde-Smith was simply repeating sexist jokes. Others, dumbfounded by the sexist digs, said the offensive jokes should not have been repeated and definitely not with a smile and no comment about why they were inappropriate.

In which @NRA A-rated Mississippi Sen Cindy Hyde-Smith jokes about how women are like dogs and why it’s funny to shoot them in the head. No, really.



Vote @espyforsenate pic.twitter.com/c85bsjl1le — Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) November 26, 2018

How does a candidate running for anything think these types of jokes are appropriate?



Her judgement is absolutely abysmal. — Andi (@idyllchatter) November 26, 2018

Pretty disingenuous to say nothing of crass to joke about a woman being shot in the head no matter the context. Other ways to make her point are available. — GerT (@GLewisTan) November 26, 2018

In fairness, she is recounting what misogyny she had to deal with---but she didn't need to repeat the jokes to do that. It's appalling to think people still talk and think like this. — virginia hair (@virginiahair1) November 26, 2018

What era is this thing from? — Amy Atrebas (@AmyAtrebas) November 26, 2018

The twilight zone — Mike King (@KingMikeMusic) November 26, 2018

I hate her and I could think of a long list why she is unfit for office but it appears she is retelling these jokes to show what she was up against as a women at that time, Her laughing appeared to be about the situation & not the actual jokes. Still hope she loses the runoff. — Respected Conqueror (@GaryPranzo) November 26, 2018

You don't retell the bad joke. You say "I knew what they were like by the distasteful or offensive jokes they told" and leave it at that. She has no pre-planned thought process. Except these speeches are written out so she has really poor judgement. — Tabs (@tabs8) November 27, 2018

Not funny. — Bonnie jean (@1funBonnieJean) November 26, 2018

Hyde-Smith was appointed to the Senate earlier this year by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) to fill the seat vacated by former Sen. Thad Cochran (R). She faces former Congressman Mike Espy (D) in a special election Tuesday.