Scott Colom’s father: In victory you want to not be critical of other people. Cindy Hyde-Smith is a person who's been in service many years, and she's our competitor, but she's not our enemy. Scott's going to be her senator and her neighbor's senator, and he's not going to offer any criticism of her….
This is one example of the values my parents passed down to me. I thank @cindyhydesmith for her service to our state. It was never personal to me. God bless her.
(CNN) “God didn't want us to get it the easy way,” Scott Colom tells victory party
Colom recalled his first town hall in Jackson where only 10 people showed up.
“You need faith, and I’ll tell you, throughout this campaign, there were many times where I had to have faith. There were times that I couldn’t get donors to answer the phone. They did not believe a moment like this was possible. But I kept the faith,” Colom said.
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