In a victory speech, Scott Colom says he had been predicting for months that he would win the election. He says the win belongs to his supporters, not to him alone, and that all he did was have the courage to believe in Mississippi.
The receipt
- Who
- Scott Colom
- Where
- rally - Senate victory speech at Tougaloo College
- Original footage
- Associated Press · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 55 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 174 on Instagram
Read the transcript
For months and months I've been telling Everybody every where I go that we're gonna win this election. I was saying it eight nine months ago Recently I've been saying it on the news but every time I said it I Pointed out that people were gonna give me too much credit for it Because it's not something that I did y 'all it's something that we did I did was have the courage to imagine a night like this. I had the courage to believe in Mississippi.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.