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IrelandThompson calls Colom's Mississippi lead "poetic justice"
On MS NOW, the congressman links the uncalled Senate race to a blocked judgeship and outlines plans for ICE oversight.
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Story of Why this story? One of MS NOW's most watched videos since yesterday, with 364,322 views.
This moment is ‘poetic justice’: MS Dem on Scott Colom’s Senate race lead
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- 0:00MS NOW reports Colom narrowly ahead of Hyde-Smith, with the Mississippi Senate race still uncalled.
- 0:25Thompson describes the ten-day deadline for affidavit and provisional ballots.
- 2:32Thompson connects Colom's lead to Hyde-Smith's earlier blocking of his federal judgeship nomination.
- 4:45Thompson promises ICE oversight with Jamie Raskin and questions whether agents receive enough training.
Cindy Hyde-Smith previously blocked Scott Colom's nomination to a federal judgeship. Now Colom is narrowly ahead in the race for her Senate seat, a turn Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson calls "poetic justice" in an interview on MS NOW's The Weekend.
The result is not settled. The program reports Colom leading the Republican incumbent by just over 2,500 votes, with ballots still being counted. Thompson points to a ten-day deadline for affidavit and provisional ballots and describes volunteers and poll watchers helping with the remaining work.
That unfinished count has already received attention elsewhere. This interview adds Thompson's personal perspective on Colom's rise: he recalls Colom graduating from the Mississippi Black Leadership Institute and reflects on the prospect of a Black senator representing the state again after the Reconstruction era.
Colom, a district attorney since 2016, is the Democratic nominee challenging Hyde-Smith, who has served in the Senate since 2018. Thompson's celebration remains conditional on the count, rather than an announcement that Colom has won.
The conversation then moves from a possible Senate victory to what Democrats intend to do with congressional power. Discussing his expected return to the Homeland Security Committee chairmanship, Thompson promises scrutiny of ICE enforcement alongside Jamie Raskin.
"We'll make ICE follow the law," Thompson says. He questions whether the agency's agent-training period is adequate before armed deployment and promises not to retreat from oversight.
The interview drew about 364,000 views since yesterday, making it MS NOW's most watched new upload over that period.
A Republican who has represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate since 2018.
More on Wikipedia ›Mississippi’s 16th Judicial District attorney since 2016 and the Democratic nominee for the state’s 2026 U.S. Senate election.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democrat representing Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district since 1993. He chaired the House Homeland Security Committee from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023.
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