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IrelandScott Colom's confidence comes with a Mississippi ballot deadline
Roland S. Martin's fast-starting segment follows the unresolved Senate count and Colom's appeal to voters with affidavit ballots.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 93,623 views a day, 6 times a normal first day on this channel (15,677).
“We Are Going to Win This.” Scott Colom Confident as Mississippi Senate Race Hangs in Balance
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- 0:40Colom predicts victory and urges voters with affidavit ballots to resolve issues by November 10.
- 3:15Martin reads the Mississippi secretary of state's statement on outstanding ballots and certification deadlines.
- 4:47Reena explains that a plurality decides the election, with no runoff, and stresses observers and attorneys.
- 6:14Panelists examine identification requirements and drop-box access as barriers that can matter in close elections.
- 7:36Martin reviews the unresolved Alaska Senate contest between Mary Peltola and Dan Sullivan.
- 8:41The election discussion gives way to a paid advertisement for a Medicare advisory service.
Voters who cast affidavit ballots have unfinished business, Scott Colom tells supporters: resolve any issues by November 10. His Mississippi Senate contest against Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith remains undecided, and his confidence comes with a practical request to help get those ballots counted.
"I'm confident once the process lays out where we are, where the ballots are, we're going to win," Colom says in the news-conference footage played on Roland S. Martin's show. It is a prediction, not a declared result. Martin reports a narrow Colom lead at the time of the broadcast, with mail-in absentee and affidavit ballots still outstanding.
Colom, a Mississippi district attorney since 2016, also makes an important distinction: a plurality wins this election. There is no runoff. The panel's attention turns to observers, attorneys and county-level ballot processing, before widening into a discussion of how identification requirements and access to voting can matter in a close contest.
The segment drew about 48,000 views in eight hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full first day. It sits alongside another unusually fast-starting discussion in which Martin questions whether national Democratic organizations adequately funded Black candidates, including Colom.
Martin also checks the unresolved Alaska Senate contest between Mary Peltola and Dan Sullivan. For Mississippi, though, the immediate focus stays on the ballots still awaiting resolution. After the election discussion, the upload includes a paid segment for a Medicare advisory service.
A Democratic lawyer and politician who has served as district attorney for Mississippi's 16th Judicial District since 2016. He is the party's nominee for the state's 2026 U.S. Senate election.
More on Wikipedia ›A Republican who has served as a U.S. senator from Mississippi since 2018. She previously served as the state's commissioner of agriculture and commerce.
More on Wikipedia ›An Alaska Democrat and former tribal judge who served as the state's at-large U.S. representative from 2022 to 2025.
More on Wikipedia ›A Republican who has served as a U.S. senator from Alaska since 2015. An attorney and Marine Corps veteran, he previously served as Alaska's attorney general.
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- Channel
- Roland S. Martin
- Subscribers
- 1,960,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 5,060,167
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,961,204 (on a normal day: 415,385)
- Video published
- November 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 48,410 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 93,623
The numbers
The Mississippi segment passed the channel's usual first-day audience within hours. Martin's broader election coverage is also drawing substantially more daily views than usual.
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Who is challenging Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate contest?
Colom is the Democratic challenger in the unresolved Mississippi contest covered by Martin.