She was a poor candidate. Appointed into the position and was barely carried in 2020. She spent the last five plus years refusing to engage with constituents and was shielded by staff. It caught up with her and those in the MSGOP. I voted for her. Actually, I voted against her opponent. No one ever made the case for her. Only against Colom.
— Chris Hinkle (@TheChrisHinkle) November 4, 2026
As of this moment (and probably well beyond this moment, or today), the election for the seat from Mississippi is too close to call. However, a victory for Scott Colom would be particularly sweet because in April of 2023, Mississippi's junior US Senator blocked
President Joe Biden’s nomination of Scott Colom, a northeast Mississippi district attorney, to serve as U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi. The Republican senator announced the decision Tuesday, citing the Black nominee’s support for transgender rights and support he received from a PAC funded by billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros in 2015.
Under Senate tradition, senators can block judicial nominees from their home states by refusing to grant approval by returning a piece of paper known as a “blue slip” to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Mississippi’s other U.S. senator, Republican Roger Wicker, has already granted Colom his approval.
“I visited with the District Attorney recently, and I recognize that he is smart and well liked in his district,” the Republican senator said in a statement Tuesday. “However, there are a number of concerns I have regarding his record. As someone with a strong interest in protecting the rights of girls and women, I am concerned about Scott Colom’s opposition to legislation to protect female athletes.”
In 2021, Mississippi enacted a law banning transgender student athletes from participating on teams that match their gender identity. Colom has not directly addressed that issue, but did sign a letter in 2021 opposing “ongoing efforts to criminalize transgender people and gender-affirming healthcare across the country,” including efforts to “criminalize parents who allow their children to receive medically recommended treatments.” The letter did not mention sports. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law banning gender-affirming care for anyone under age 18, including puberty blockers and hormone treatments, last month.
At the same time, the Alliance for Justice, in endorsing the nomination, noted
During the last two years of President Obama’s presidency, blue slips helped Republican senators block judicial nominations, allowing only 20 confirmations while leaving 106 vacancies that President Trump then could fill. While Senate Democrats returned over 130 blue slips for nominees during the Trump administration, Senate Republicans have only returned 13 during the Biden administration.
IOKIYAR, It's O.K. if you're a Republican. Republicans play by a different set of rules than do Democrats. Once in power in Congress in 62 days, Democrats need to remember that what goes around, comes around.
There are several ways Democrats can do that. Their current Senate leader, Chuck Schumer, can notify current Senate Majority Leader John Thune that if a conservative Supreme Court Justice (Samuel Alito or other) announces his resignation to take effect before the new Congress is convened, Thune must not seriously move to confirm the individual President Trump's proposed replacement. If the South Dakotan instead does Trump's bidding, Schumer needs to tell him, Democrats will remember in the 120th Congress.
November 3, 2026- the beginning of the beginning. Thanks to the unpopularity of the President, aided by the quality of those candidates he virtually handpicked, the GOP has been smacked in the face. Or elsewhere..
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