Updated list: Companies asking for a refund from embattled Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith before Mississippi runoff

A number of businesses and organizations want their money back from Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., amid the fallout from racially tinged controversies that appear to have made her vulnerable in her runoff Tuesday against Democratic opponent Mike Espy in a traditionally red state.

Among the missteps that have thrown Hyde-Smith’s effort to stay in office in doubt was a video showing her joking three weeks ago about how she would sit in “the front row” of a public hanging.