Lott’s done it before.
<Kinda hard to deny you meant what you said when you keep saying it.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott faced mounting criticism Wednesday for praising segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential bid, a controversy that grew with a report that the Republican senator expressed similar sentiments more than two decades ago.
"You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today," Lott was quoted as saying in an article that appeared November 3, 1980, in The Clarion-Ledger, a Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper.
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