Colom flips county named for Klan leader, Richey reports

The Mississippi segment follows Forrest County's political swing into ballot-counting questions and a third-party candidate's denial that he played spoiler.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 357,529 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (22,937).

Black Democrat Flips KKK Founder's County In Historic Win

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0:00Colom flips Forrest County, named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Klan's first Grand Wizard.
2:44Richey reviews Colom's lead over Hyde-Smith and the county's swing toward Democrats.
5:06NAACP intervention over ballot-curing requirements leads into an explanation of provisional ballots.
7:51A Colom campaign ad uses horror-movie tropes to make its case against Hyde-Smith.
10:02Pinkins denies playing spoiler in a CNN interview; Richey then examines third-party effects on the race.

"If you don't vote, you don't count," Dr. Rashad Richey says, before turning to the practical business of making sure votes are counted in Mississippi's close Senate race.

His starting point is Forrest County, where Black Democratic candidate Scott Colom led Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith with nearly all votes counted. The county had backed Donald Trump in the previous presidential election. It is named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general who became the Ku Klux Klan's first Grand Wizard.

That contrast anchors a segment that drew roughly 360,000 views in its first day, against about 23,000 for a usual regular upload on Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey. But the video goes beyond the symbolism of the county result, and its discussion still treats the statewide contest as a close race with ballots at issue.

Richey examines NAACP intervention over ballot-curing requirements, the process for resolving problems with a ballot, and explains how provisional ballots work. Colom, a Mississippi district attorney, is challenging Hyde-Smith for her Senate seat.

The presentation then changes register: Richey plays a Colom campaign ad built around horror-movie tropes before showing CNN's Brianna Keilar questioning third-party candidate Ty Pinkins about whether he served as a spoiler. Pinkins rejects that characterization. Richey returns to his response to examine how a third candidate can affect the arithmetic of a tight election.

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Channel: Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey
Subscribers: 1,450,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 7,809,140
Channel views, pace per day: 1,261,211 (on a normal day: 930,121)
Video published: November 7, 2026
Video views so far: 395,509 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 281,580

The numbers

The Mississippi segment drew far more first-day views than a usual regular upload on the channel. Its comment section was also substantially busier than usual.

the video's first day

usual first day here

22,937

this video

357,529

subscribers

1,450,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,292,792,384

views per day

1,261,211