The Republicans have taken another punch to the gut with the victory of far-left Democrat Scott Colom over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.
The race was finally called on Thursday after a prolonged ballot counting process. Colom is the first black Senator from Mississippi since post-civil war reconstruction.
Jameson Taylor is Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs at AFA Action, the political arm of the American Family Association. He says there is no longer any middle ground for Democrats.
"The Democrat Party is now the Socialist Party, and Scott Colom is part of that Socialist Party. So, Mississippi has just elected a Democrat Socialist. That's very important to understand. What policies are they going to pursue?”
Their policies won’t be kind to pocketbooks in Mississippi, Taylor said.
“If you're worried about costs of living, it's about to get a lot worse. All of the policies that the Democrats will be pushing will increase the debt. They will increase inflation. Inflation was much higher under Joe Biden. It's going to be much higher under a Democrat Senate and Congress if they get their way."
As far as the GOP, which lost in deep-red Mississippi, Jameson is not complimentary.
"The GOP walked away from 'America First,' they walked away from pro-lifers, and they paid the price in the 2026 elections, even in a state like Mississippi," he warned.
"This has to be a wake-up call for the national GOP going into 2028," he added, "that they need to put pro-life first, they need to put America First, first."
Colom becomes the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate by Mississippi since John C. Stennis in 1982. Stennis was first elected in 1947 and won reelection six times.
Hyde-Smith was appointed by Gov. Phil Bryant in March of 2018 to replace retiring Sen. Thad Cochran. She won two subsequent elections, a special election against Democrat Mike Espy in November of 2018 and against Espy again in 2020.
Taylor says fortunately Donald Trump is still in the White House and has promised to veto all the bad bills the Democrats will pass.
"But the Democrats are fine with that. They plan to obstruct. They plan to cause division. They plan to cause problems, and they will blame all of those problems on President Trump. That's what they did during the election. Voters believe that. They're going to do the same thing in 2028. They're going to blame Trump. They're going to blame the Republicans, even as they're the ones causing the problems."
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