Mississippi Senator-elect Scott Colom on an earlier Pod Save America appearance: I’m going to win… I can feel the momentum and the movement because I am out there listening. You can’t do this in every state, but you can do this in Mississippi. We’re gonna show the country Mississippi matters.
@BrighamTomco My lesson from this midterm election, especially considering the context of MS, SC, KS, and TX - we have to try everywhere. And our small donor coalition can prop up more candidates.
States that elected a new Dem Senator this year vs when they last voted for a Dem President:
MS: 1976
NC: 2008
OH: 2012
IA: 2012
KS: 1964
TX: 1976
AK: 1964
I am Mississippi-raised, and tonight, I am overjoyed to congratulate Senator-elect @scott_colom! From the first time we broke bread together in August 2024, I understood his claim on history. He knows that justice and security, that affordability and prosperity are possible for Mississippi. And the people agreed.
This is what happens when the overlooked organize, the discounted turn out, and the silent refuse to be ignored. Now let's get to work.
It’s impossible to overstate the history being made by Scott Colom in Mississippi. A state whose history is stained by slavery, segregation, lynchings, and the violent suppression of Black voters has just elected its first Black U.S. Senator by popular vote.
seeing a black man win a senate seat against a vicious racist in a state defined and shaped by racism from its birth in the midst of conservatives trying to bludgeon the voting rights act is perhaps the most cathartic experience of this entire election
Cindy Hyde-Smith once joked about attending a public hanging. Now she's watching a Black Democrat take her Senate seat. History has a wicked sense of irony.
I can’t stop the tears right now.
Mississippi. Mississippi.
It is breathtaking.
Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney, Fannie Lou Hamer.
Lift Every Voice and Sing!
Mississippi
A Senate seat once held by some of America’s most virulently white supremacist Senators, will now be held by a Black man. A beautiful moment for America.
Scott Colom becoming the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction is an incredible statement of how momentous last Tuesday’s elections were.
This is just absolutely fucking crazy.
The names of the strategists and organizers on this campaign need to be famous.
A once-in-a-century achievement when it was most needed. Simply remarkable.