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MS NOW rates Alaska Senate seat "likely Democratic"

The Weekend pairs Mary Peltola's growing lead with Jarvis DeBerry's personal perspective on Scott Colom's Mississippi victory.

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BREAKING: Alaska Senate race shifts to LIKELY Democratic

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0:17Peltola leads Sullivan as MS NOW rates Alaska "likely Democratic," without declaring a winner.
0:35Daniels reports Colom's Mississippi Senate victory and Laubacher's defeat of Boebert in Colorado.
1:40Jeffries, Shapiro and Van Hollen discuss governing after Democratic election gains in conference footage.
4:17Drucker says defeated Republicans have been conceding across the country.
6:40DeBerry connects Colom's victory with his family's voting-rights history in Mississippi.

Mary Peltola is approaching an outright majority in Alaska's Senate count, but MS NOW's assessment in this segment stops short of declaring a winner. On The Weekend, Eugene Daniels announces that the network has moved the contest to "likely Democratic."

The results displayed put Peltola at 49.8% with about 96% reported, ahead of Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan. Her lead grew overnight, according to the network. Peltola previously represented Alaska in the U.S. House, giving the Senate contest a familiar statewide candidate rather than a newcomer.

The discussion broadens beyond Alaska to Democratic gains elsewhere. MS NOW reports Scott Colom's defeat of Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi and Eileen Laubacher's victory over Lauren Boebert in Colorado. Those results become the backdrop for footage of Democratic leaders discussing what to do with their electoral gains. "We run to win, but we win to govern, and we govern to get big things done for the American people," Hakeem Jeffries says.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist David Drucker focuses on the acceptance of results, saying defeated Republicans across the country have been conceding despite online commentary.

The segment's distinct Mississippi perspective comes from MS NOW opinion editor Jarvis DeBerry. He connects Colom's victory with his own family's experience of voting rights in the state during the civil rights era. The network describes Colom as Mississippi's first Black senator in roughly a century and a half. For DeBerry, that history makes the result more than a change in party control: "And so this is humongous, this is such a major occasion."