In an interview with NBC News, Scott Colom says Democrats have mostly conceded Mississippi, even though 38% of the state is African-American and votes 90 to 95% Democratic. He asks how the party could skip a state where people are denied health care, farmers and small businesses are hurt by tariffs, and voting rights are under attack. Colom says he showed up, and that a number of voters told him that is what changed their vote.
The receipt
- Who
- Scott Colom
- Where
- interview - NBC News Meet the Press NOW, with Yamiche Alcindor
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- NBC News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 50 seconds, unedited within the cut
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- 1,352 on Instagram
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Most of the time the Democrats conceded the state. And my frustration with that is 38 % of populations African -American are very low in Democrats. They vote 90 to 95 % of Democrats. It's a lot of white rule of Democrats across Mississippi. That's a shame, right? Because morally, how could you not compete in a state where people are denying folks health care? How could you not compete in a state where folks are getting betrayed on tariff? Farmers getting betrayed. Consumers, small businesses. How could you not compete in the state where voting rights are being attacked left and right? When you say, listen, I can't win those voters. What you're saying, I don't care enough about those voters. And when you show voters you don't care, they don't show up. So what I did is I showed up. And turns out when you show up, people start to believe. And I can tell you a number of voters told me it was Scott Coulomb showing up that changed their vote.
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