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I'm not sure, but the context was a choice between lynching black people or women not voting. Still not the best way to handle the question, but his hedge was claiming that Republicans then were more progressive (not sure that is what he actually intended to say).
Who makes a choice between lynching black people or women not voting? It's never come up in my long life's conversations.
Politicians are confronted by crazy people asking crazy questions all the time, and in these cases politicians are going to try and not directly confront the questioner, for many logical reasons. I don't know this person, they may be terible, but this is definitely taken out of context to create rage bait.