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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[Acyn @Acyn]

COATES: One Fox News host called you a bigger threat to the GOP in 2028 than AOC

COLOM: I'm not trying to be a threat to anybody. I'm trying to focus on delivering for Mississippi. I'm not trying to get into national punditry, where we try to figure out, you know, who's this or who's that… I think we got too much celebrity in our politics. We got to get back to leadership that's rooted in serving people.

[Brandon Presley @BrandonPresley]

Let me also add that Senator-Elect @scott_colom is being denied precious time for Senate orientation and the natural transition that’s necessary. The most ardent Republicans I know are even getting embarrassed and are ready to move on.

[Brandon Presley @BrandonPresley]

Just wrapped up an interview with @courtneyannj w/@WLBT about the foregone conclusion that @scott_colom is the Senator-Elect. Like I told Courtney Ann, Mississippians of both parties know @scott_colom is going to be the winner for one really basic reason, they can count. #SenatorScottColom

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

Mississippi U.S. Senate: 1 new vote from Tishomingo County

🔴 Hyde-Smith: +1 (100%)
🔵 Colom: +0 (0%)

Colom's statewide lead narrows to 2,535 votes.

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

At some point, we have to talk about @CookPolitical and other “prognosticators” who had me and other southern candidates labeled as solid R for much of the campaign cycle. They made it much more difficult to fundraise and are part of the reason the South has been neglected for so long.

They’re only a reflection of the past and mysteriously avoid any accountability when they’re wrong. One of their “analysts” was extremely condescending to me (not Jessica) when I tried to make my pitch for why they were wrong about my rating like he knew something about MS politics when he’s never been to the Sip. This attitude hurt Jaime Davis & others so much.

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

‘Wa Texas’ is claiming he made me president. How? - Ruto hits out at Gachagua

[Thomas @Timo202020]

@WWReaganD @wisconsin_now Like spending billions and still being defeated

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Way to go Arizona! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Mary Peltola @MaryPeltola]

Results are still coming in, and we are seeing some incredible numbers.

In St. Mary's, more Alaskans voted for me on Election Day this year than voted at ALL in 2024.

Thank you St. Mary’s, for the warm welcome earlier this year and for turning out to vote!

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

Is the Republican bench so bad that they need to trot out someone who hasn't won an election in 12 years to offer their side's perspective? Why are we still interviewing this guy after every goddamn race?

[Thomas @Timo202020]

@DavidCCrowley Gerrymander back. Fight fire with fire. No more playing nice.

[MxM @Mukurima]

President Donald Trump went to Corinth, Mississippi, to tell people why they should not vote for @scott_colom as their Senator. By the time Trump took the stage, some of those people had already met him. Colom, a Democrat running against incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, had come in a sweatshirt and walked down the line outside the arena, shaking hands and asking people what they were worried about.

One man, a veteran, brought up gun rights. Others talked about gas prices and the war in Iran. I saw a man ask for a selfie. A few days earlier, Colom had gone on CNN and said he thought Trump had done a good job securing the border. He also said he supported the Second Amendment. He talked about it as a father who wanted his wife, Nadia, to be able to protect their two daughters. On tariffs and the war in Iran, he was just as plain about where he disagreed. He argued that the tariffs were hurting Mississippi farmers and small businesses, and that the war was driving up the cost of diesel for the people who grow the food and the people who haul it.

If you want to understand why Colom was comfortable in that line, it helps to know who raised him.

His father, Wilbur, was a lawyer who worked for Ronald Reagan and once ran for state treasurer as a Republican. His mother, Dorothy, was the first Black person elected to her region’s chancery court. Scott grew up in Columbus, became a judge himself and, in 2015, became the first Black district attorney elected to represent a majority-white district in Mississippi. When Joe Biden nominated him to be a federal judge, Hyde-Smith blocked the nomination. Colom eventually ran for her seat.

And then there were the ads that arguably tilted the race. When Hyde-Smith answered a question about expensive beef by pointing out that people had other proteins to choose from, Colom’s campaign took the joke to the grocery store. For Halloween, his twin brother, Andrew, wrote and directed a spoof of Sinners, the Ryan Coogler film set in Mississippi. The brothers played the twins themselves. Alexis York, a 29-year-old in Jackson, told The Washington Post she recognized someone in one of Colom’s videos. He used to buy lunch from her at the gas station. That mattered to her and as it turned out, this year was the first time she voted.

Isitoshe,

For his last ad of the campaign season, Colom went to the house in Jackson where Medgar Evers was shot in his driveway in 1963. Evers had spent years organizing for civil rights and helping Black Mississippians register to vote. Colom said he wanted people to hear what it had cost Evers and his family for others to be able to cast a ballot. In that last ad, he never asked anybody to vote for him.

Once all the votes are counted, Colom will probably be announced the next Mississippi senator. He will become the state’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.

May the day break

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

David Crowley, proud son of Milwaukee, absolutely crushed it in his hometown.

Milwaukee County saw the biggest shift from 2024 of any county in Wisconsin. Crowley got 76% of the vote in the County, 85% in the City, better than any statewide candidate in the 21st Century.

[Representative Keith M. D. @Staffraud]

@mehdirhasan @FrankLuntz Cooper got 60% of the vote in a red state and carried the bottom of the ballot so hard that they broke the gerrymander, there’s something wrong with you

[Thomas @Timo202020]

@WileyThruster @MurphyAJC @ajc She is now your governor

[Robert Samuels @newsbysamuels]

Young Black women in rural Mississippi are trying like hell to make sure no ballot gets thrown out unfairly in the Scott Colom race. They are DMing friends and chasing down people who need to verify their IDs. My story (gift link) on the phenomenon: https://t.co/cyNLXmO47d

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

Ruto, I hear some people are rejecting the money you take to their churches. Bring that money to us – Bishop tells Ruto in Nyamira

[Josh Shapiro @JoshShapiroPA]

Last year, I told every Republican member of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation how many people in their districts would lose health care and SNAP if they passed their budget bill.

And when Donald Trump told them to, they went to Washington and voted for it anyway.

So on Tuesday, we beat them.

I’ve always believed in reaching across the aisle to get things done. I’ve done it throughout my time as Governor — and we’ve gotten a whole lot done.

But if you’re going to screw over Pennsylvania families — we’re going to use our power to defeat you and deliver real change for our Commonwealth and country.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

DeSoto County, Mississippi voter Rachel Madden says she was not on the voter registration list: "They had sent me two updated voter registration cards, and I had not moved, I had not had a change of address, again, I've never had a name change."