In remarks after his win in the Mississippi Senate race, Scott Colom recalls a farmer named Michael who told him the tariffs cost him the customer he depended on to sell his soybeans. Colom says it made the hard work of farming even harder and left Michael worried he would lose a passion he kept working at.
The receipt
- Who
- Scott Colom
- Where
- other - Senate election victory speech, Mississippi
- Original footage
- MS NOW · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 40 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 188 on Instagram
Read the transcript
I'm reminded of the farmer named Michael from Octobar County who told me how the tariffs meant that he lost this customer that he had been relying on to sell his soybeans. And how that made the hard work of farming so much more difficult. And how this was a passion that he had that now became something where he was worried he was about to lose, but he continued to work. I'm reminded of the single mother in George County who had three kids and told me that
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.