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Read this outstanding piece about @scott_colom with context you won't get from most media.
#Mississippi #MississippiMatters #ScottColom #MSSen
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"District 5, which includes Jackson State University, accepted 181 affidavit ballots and rejected 482."
If Michael Watson intended to disproportionately disenfranchise young voters such as college students, then the 26th Amendment can enter the chat.
Hinds County Election Commissioners have rejected the majority of affidavit ballots cast in Mississippi’s largest county. The county accepted just 817 affidavit ballots, while rejecting 1,609—a rejection rate of about 66.3%.
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Considering the status of the MS Senate race, and Sec of State Michael Watson facing criticism for purging legitimate voters, you’d think this week isn’t the best time to be hitting the campaign trail for his Lt. Gov. race. Maybe journalists need to show up & ask him about that.
Ironically, Michael Watson will not be speaking in DeSoto County tomorrow night as was previously planned. He canceled. @3onyourside @WMCActionNews5 @LocalMemphis_ @CW30Memphis @DailyMemphian @MSTODAYnews @MSFreePress @clarionledger @JxnFreePress
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The @scott_colom campaign confirms that Senator Cindy Hyde-smith called Colom about 15 minutes ago to concede the race. He thanked her for her service.
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Mississippi has elected a Black senator for the first time since 1881.
Just six years after retiring our Confederate state flag.
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CNN projects that @scott_colom will be elected the next US Senator from the state of Mississippi, defeating GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.
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Congratulations to Senator-Elect Scott Colom!!! 🌸🎉
@scott_colom is a seventh-generation Mississippian, husband, father, and District Attorney who has dedicated his life to keeping communities safe. And today, he becomes the first Democrat to win a Mississippi Senate seat in over four decades.
ALT ELECTED: Scott Colom. Mississippi - U.S. Senate.
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Just six years after Mississippi removed the Confederate stars and bars from its state flag, Scott Colom could become the first Black senator from the state since Reconstruction and the first Democrat to win the seat since 1982. The last Democratic senator in the state, John Stennis, was an avowed segregationist himself. cnn.it/48KBTy3
Michele Walker retweeted
I'm expecting Hinds County to finish counting its affidavit ballots today and it's very likely the AP will call the Mississippi Senate race today.
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“And voting-rights advocates say that Mississippi, a state with a long history of voter suppression and discrimination, has once again undermined one of its citizens’ most sacred rights” theatlantic.com/politics/202…
The Associated Press has expanded Colom's overall lead to just under 3,000 votes. #mississippimatters #mssen #ScottColom #Mississippi
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Early in his Senate campaign, Scott Colom asked his supporters to trust the impossible. All Democrats should watch this.
COLOM: What I need you to do is the most powerful thing, but also the hardest thing. I'm going to ask you to believe in something that nobody has seen.
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The Associated Press late Tuesday afternoon reported that Colom led Hyde-Smith by 2,604 votes with around 97% of the vote counted, but it still has not called the race.
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‘We’re in a position where it’s going to be very clear that it’s time to call it.’ Democratic Mississippi Senate Candidate Scott Colom talks with @jaketapper and CNN’s Annie Grayer about when he thinks his race will be called.
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Mississippi, a state not known for close elections, now sits in the center of the national spotlight as an unusually high number of absentee and provisional ballots will determine the size of the Democratic Party’s majority in the Senate next year.
In partnership with the @pulitzercenter, @ElizLanders reports on how election officials are handling the ongoing vote count and the historic nature of this Senate race.
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@MichaelWatsonMS provides an update as the vote counting process continues.
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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith not really engaging when I asked why #mssen was so close in a state that President Trump won overwhelmingly three times.
“I think it's nationwide,” she would only say
“We are still counting votes and there's 2,000 out and we feel confident," she said.
She said her opponent can say "anything he wants" when asked about Scott Colom's assertion that she does not have a path to victory.