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IrelandRoland Martin asks what Colom's win means for Southern Democrats
Angie Nixon argues that national donors missed opportunities in the South as Martin's Mississippi election broadcast draws an unusually large audience.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 83,019 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (7,378).
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- 8:24Martin announces Colom's projected Senate victory over incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.
- 10:20A Colom campaign memo argues that the remaining ballots cannot erase his lead.
- 12:35Martin examines outstanding affidavit and mail-in ballots across four Mississippi counties.
- 16:38Angie Nixon joins after her Florida Senate campaign to discuss Democratic strategy in the South.
- 17:53Nixon and Martin argue that national Democratic leaders and donors failed to adequately fund Black Southern candidates.
"They wrote him off. They wrote all of us off," Angie Nixon tells Roland S. Martin. Scott Colom's Mississippi Senate victory gives their conversation a pointed question: what might other Southern candidates have done with more support?
Martin's November 11 broadcast announces Colom's projected defeat of Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, making him Mississippi's first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. The episode drew about 83,000 views in its first day, more than eleven times the usual audience for Martin's long broadcasts and live streams.
Before the interview, Martin works through the unfinished ballot count. He displays a memo from Colom's campaign manager, Gerard Henderson, and examines outstanding affidavit and mail-in ballots county by county. The campaign's argument is that Hyde-Smith no longer has a path to victory; those calculations are a campaign assessment, not a final certified tally.
Nixon, the Florida state representative who lost her own Senate bid, turns the discussion toward national Democratic investment. She says her campaign had to beg for funding and argues that party leaders and donors could have helped Democrats pick up more Southern seats. Martin joins her criticism of the support given to Black candidates in the region.
The broadcast includes a paid partnership with a Medicare advisory service.
Colom's result also drew unusually large audiences to Martin's separate election excerpt and victory-speech stream. The excerpt attracted more first-day views than the full episode, while the speech gave viewers Colom's own response to the result.
A Florida state representative since 2020 who was the Democratic nominee in the state's 2026 U.S. Senate special election. She lost to Republican incumbent Ashley Moody.
More on Wikipedia ›Mississippi's Democratic U.S. senator-elect, a lawyer who has served as district attorney for the state's 16th Judicial District since 2016.
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The full election broadcast, a separate Colom excerpt and his victory-speech stream all drew substantially more views than their usual first-day audiences.
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What elected office did Scott Colom hold before winning his Senate race?
Colom served as district attorney for Mississippi's 16th Judicial District.