BLUE WAVE HITS MISSISSIPPI! Scott Colom WINS MS Senate race in historic Dem victory

COMPARISON TO THE TRUMP MARGINS, WHICH WE'VE SHOWN PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, I WORK FOR TWO U U .S. SENATORS BACK IN THE DAY BEFORE I DID THIS, I WORKED ON THE JOHN CARRY PRESIDENTIAL. CAMPAIGN AND ONE OF THE THINGS WHEN YOU'RE ON. A CAMPAIGN IS IF YOU CAN MOVE FOUR, FIVE, SIX POINTS, THAT'S CONSIDERED A GOOD CAMPAIGN. IF YOU'RE MOVING 8, 10, 12 POINTS THAT'S CONSIDERED. A GREAT CAMPAIGN. I SAY THAT AS INTRODUCTION TO WHAT. YOU'RE GOING TO SHOW US WHICH IS WHAT. THEY HAD TO MOVE WHICH WAS NOT EIGHT OR. THAT'S CONSIDERED A GREAT CAMPAIGN. IF YOU'RE TEN. DONALD TRUMP WON, THIS IS.

61. 61 TO 38. OKAY? THAT WAS THE MARGIN. CINDY HYDESMITH HAS NEVER PERFORMED AS WELL. AS DONALD TRUMP IS IN THE LAST SENATE ELECTIONS. IN 2024 I'LL BRING THOSE TO you, Roger Wicker actually outperformed Trump. So 63 to 37. Look at how this has. happened here. Scott Colom, again, it's a one-point lead. It's under a one-point lead at the moment. But look at the turnaround here. That's the thing. It's a tough environment, there's no question. In almost every state we looked at,

the Republican candidate was not performing. at 2024 presidential levels. In many cases, they weren't performing. even close to. their own levels from 2024. But in this case, a good Republican candidate. in 2024 outperformed Donald Trump. There's no way if you look at this world. that you're thinking. in the next election two years later. that a Democrat would win here. And I'll put a point on it and let you CONTINUE, IF YOU GO OVER THE APPLES TO APPLES, IF YOU LEAVE UP THE 24TH SENATE, THAT'S JUST TWO YEARS AGO. TWO YEARS AGO, RIGHT? YEAH. HE'S UP 12 ON THAT. YES. 11 ON HARRIS. YES.

NOW YOU SAY, OH, YOU KNOW, WHERE DOES IT COMPARE, WELL, KAMALA HARRIS AMONG DEMOCRATIC-BASE. VOTERS HAD A LOT OF MONEY AND NAME. RECOGNITION AND HAD BEEN VICE PRESIDENT. SO TO GO UP THIS MUCH, TELL US ABOUT THAT. SIX WEEKS AGO, MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW WHO. SCOTT COLUMB was. If you're a viewer of this network, you probably saw him. If you watch Simone Sanders, you'd have seen him. But fundamentally, people, and he's got some gripe. about that. He's saying, you know what? What could have happened if Democrats actually. put some money into these races? And it's an interesting conversation to have. because the media markets. in Mississippi are a lot cheaper.

than Florida or Pennsylvania or New York, but that's the thing. He turned this around largely. with a social media campaign. with his viral stuff where he turned. Cindy Hyde-Smith's own words against her. about switching your protein. He then talked about he went to Trump rallies. and talked to people, and he landed. So people who were meeting him were liking him, and that combined with the environment. for Republicans and the fact. that there has been a rising, as the Rev was talking. IN THE SOUTH WHERE PEOPLE HAVE. SAID WE'VE HAD IT WITH US,

WE'RE NOT GOING THROUGH THIS AGAIN. YOUNG PEOPLE DID SOME OF IT AND A LOT. OF IT WERE OLDER CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS. WHO SAID WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS BEFORE. WE'RE NOT DOING THIS AGAIN. You cover this closely. We were watching this. Tuesday night. ALL THE DAYS IN BETWEEN, YOUR THOUGHTS NOW THAT IT'S. CALLED? WELL, SO I BELIEVE ALL THREE. OF US WERE IN CHICAGO THE. NIGHT BARACK OBAMA BECAME PRESIDENT. AND THERE WAS SUCH A SENSE OF, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THAT THIS COUNTRY. I THINK THE CITY WAS FULFILLING. A PROMISE MAYBE THAT MANY PEOPLE. NEVER TRULY KNEW IF IT WOULD, YOU KNOW,

TRULY KNEW IT COULD FULFILL AND. THEN DONALD TRUMP IS ELECTED. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE CERTAINLY. MYSELF WONDERED IF THAT AMERICA. EVEN STILL EXISTED, RIGHT? IT FELT LIKE THIS WAS A COUNTRY THAT YOU DIDN'T. RECOGNIZE OR THAT I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE. And then when he was reelected, I think that despair was only redoubled. This is maybe the first time. since 2008 when you have a-when I've. at least felt a glimpse of that sense. of possibility and transcendence. And in some ways, it's even more astonishing.

I mean, I don't know-you know, I-in some ways, the idea of a black Democrat being elected. in Mississippi is more surprising. than a black president being elected. by the United States as a whole, right? When you think of Mississippi, you think of, you know, Mississippi, goddamn, right? It's this-it's in In some ways, it is a state that has been a synonym. for kind of racial terror in this country. and racial division in this country.

And the fact that you now have Mississippi, Texas and Kansas, right? The states that kind of are synonymous. with different parts of the Republican coalition. I mean, I could not, I think that it would be, we thought I THOUGHT WE HAD A BAD. ELECTION NIGHT IN 2024, AND WE DID. BUT IMAGINE IF WE HAD LOST. CALIFORNIA, MASSACHUSETTS, AND NEW YORK. I MEAN, THAT'S I THINK how seismic this is. That's the scale of it.

Michelle Goldberg bringing in the Nina Simone, okay? The Mississippi goddamn. But we'll meet you there. Nina Simone, like so many other artists. of her time was speaking to the unacceptable outrage. of the constant violence and anti-black terrorism. that black. people were met with, that you've marched against. in that and other states. And then being told, no, you've got to clean up your.

act. To paraphrase the song, she says, oh, they told me to wash. behind my ears to do respectability. politics only to watch them kill men, women, and children. Rev, Michelle brings it up, that point, that it is different than a national. left-leaning coalition for Obama, that as a matter of political science, This this is a different inflection. point tonight. It is different. And if you realize that the Voting Rights Act. of 65 was not based on the goodwill.

of the liberal THERE WAS THE MOVEMENT. TO FIGHT TO GET VOTING RIGHTS. ANDREW YOUNG, DR. KING TELLS A STORY. THEY WERE AT THE SIGNING OF THE 64 CIVIL RIGHTS. VOTING RIGHTS ACT AND DR. KING ACCEPTED THE PIN. FROM LINDEN JOHNSON AND HE SAYS BUT. NOW WE NEED A VOTING RIGHTS. ACT AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON SAID. I'VE USED ALL MY CAPITAL, DR. KING, I CAN'T GET A GET A BOOTING RIGHTS ACT AND. ANDREW YOUNG SAID HE ASKED HIM WALKING OUT, DR. KING, YOU HEARD.

THE PRESIDENT, WE CAN'T GET A BOOTING. RIGHTS ACT, HE SAYS HE SAID WE'RE GOING DOWN. SOUTH AND GET HIM SOME POWER. HE SAID WE'RE GOING DOWN SOUTH. AND GET HIM SOME POWER. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. THEY HAD A MOVEMENT, AN INTERACIAL MOVEMENT. MISSISSIPPI, 1964 FREEDOM MOVEMENT, I THINK THAT IN MANY WAYS WHAT HAS. HAPPENED HERE IS THEY SLAPPED US WITH. THE CAYLESS DECISION WITH THE SUPREME COURT. YOU HAD DONALD TRUMP WHO BECAME THE EPITOMY. and personification of I'm going to take.

everything back in DEI and all of that, and people on the ground, whether it was those of us. in national. organizations and the local state chapter. of NAACP and And others were on the ground, just like they were Mississippi, 1964, that swelled up black turnout. And then Scott was the kind of candidate that could. appeal to white. interests where. HE WAS NOT ONLY NOT THREATENING, HE WAS ADVOCATING ON THEIR BEHALF. HE WAS A PERFECT CANDIDATE THAT PUT IT ALL. TOGETHER.

BUT THE GROUNDWORK HAD TO BE THERE AND THE. RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES TONIGHT. YEAH, IT'S SO STRIKING. I'LL TELL WE ARE FOLLOWING ALL THE. DEVELOPMENTS NOW THAT THIS RACE HAS BEEN CALLED, SCOTT COLOMB, THE FIRST BLACK SENATOR. ELECTED. FROM MISSISSISSIPPI SENSE-FREE. CONSTRUCTION. HE WILL BE SPEAKING LATER. TONIGHT. EMIS WILL BE CARRYING THAT. WE HAVE had the official. concession. So you have the call and the concession. from the Republican as our colleagues. were reporting. Our panel stays. One of the things we've mentioned, and I just want to show you here we are tonight. taking this all in was what Coulomb looked.

like as he went out and campaigned including. doing something untraditional meeting with. kind of walking up to and then. broadcasting online. his interactions with Trump voters. in line when there was a rally in.

I think it was a veteran right now. second amendment right second amendment. I'm big on that kind of iffy on the AI. from Mississippi to. Indiana let me ask y'all what matters to y'all. as photos what are your top issues gas prices. how do you feel about the war in Iran get out. of it we don't need to be there it's not. our problem let me ask you what do you think. about the terrorists are you a fan. or not not really I'm not a fan of them. because I worry about privacy what's your top.

issues mostly just prices. yeah that's what I'm running. on have you taken any money. from hate absolutely not you might. be asking you what matters to you. as a voter right now um honestly well. honesty we didn't know it then. we can say tonight Michelle that was part. of the coalition he built people. who had voted for Trump those people.

were still waiting in line for. WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE ISSUES HE RAN ON. SO WHEN I WAS IN TEXAS AND WRITING ABOUT GINA, WHO'S ALSO A LONG SHOT, I REMEMBER HER SAYING TO ME THAT. FOR SO LONG DEMOCRATS HAVE THOUGHT THAT. THAT THE TRUMP VOTERS OR THE REPUBLICAN. VOTERS THEY WERE GOING TO WIN OVER OR. THE SORT OF COUNTRY CLUB REPUBLICANS. who were outraged by Donald Trump's vulgarity. and his smashing of norms. And she said, it's not that, it's MAGA. And I found that hard to believe, frankly, right? But I I think that she was onto something,

that there was at least a subsection. of Trump voters who believed in, who believed that he was an avatar. of economic populism, right? He never was, but that was what they wanted. That was the need that he, or that was the kind of. desire. that he identified. And they saw an opening there. And I think it took so much, it was such a leap of faith for Democrats, for Democratic candidates like. Scott Cologne to say that there's a chance here, right?

And I'm going to kind of throw myself. into this even in the face of a national party. that's kind of totally disbelieving.