On Wednesday, Scott Colom was declared the winner of the Mississippi Senate race, becoming the state’s first black Senator since Reconstruction, adding to the blue tsunami, and becoming the first Democrat to win election to a Mississippi U.S. Senate seat since 1982. Thursday morning, as the left wing media celebrated, some claimed Colom overcame voter suppression, while others took it a step further, including Maria Cardona on CNN's News Central.
During the 7am hour, co-host Kate Bolduan kicked off the segment announcing that CNN had projected Colom the winner, and after playing clips of joyous Colom supporters, and Colom's father, who was interviewed Wednesday night by CNN's Laura Coates, she tossed to co-host Erica Hill, whose first question went to CNN's Alyssa Farah Griffin .
HILL: When you look at this, does this change the focus, or how does it change the focus, I should say, for both parties moving into 2028 based on what we saw Democrats are capable of doing in Mississippi and across the South?
Griffin gave a very tame answer, compared to what was to follow from Cardona.
GRIFFIN: I think it's kind of an amalgamation of issues. It honestly in many ways is a referendum on the President and on his policies. When you see the Heartland start to turn blue, that is a direct result of tariffs. The agricultural community was hurt very bad by the tariffs, the war in Iran, like you have to be able to get around these states and gas prices are extremely high. But also ICE enforcement I think was a big factor. Not just the tactics being unpopular, but hurting the labor force in some of these farm and agricultural communities.
Hill then addressed Cardona, and played a clip of Abdul El-Sayed saying that if Trump would sign "Medicare for All," he'd be happy to have it named after Trump. Hill seemed to think this was an an ingenious offer of a huge concession, which it obviously was not, and it's not something Trump would ever consider, but she asked Cardona about it.
HILL: So, this is the man, right, who Republicans said, He's our boogeyman. This is great. We can use him. A number of Democrats feel he's too far left, and he is saying, hey, I will lose the battle to win the war. Is he right? Is that the right strategy going forward?
CARDONA: I think it is, Erica. And I think what it demonstrates is that Democrats across the board, the candidates who won, won because they talked about solutions, won because they wanted to offer voters completely the opposite of what Republicans and Trump have offered them these past two years, which has been a massive betrayal of the promises they made in 2024.
So, I do think it's the right approach because it focuses on what Americans want. I talked about this in terms of immigration. I said Trump could be absolutely transformational on immigration if he wanted to, and I think Democrats would be open to call it -- calling it the Trump Immigration Bill if he actually came to the table and talked about real reform and real change, because that's what Americans wanted.
Another ridiculous scenario, but at least Cardona was civil, until that point.
CARDONA: Scott Colom is now going to be the first black senator, from Mississippi. And that also to me indicates, Erica, that Americans gave a middle finger to this administration and how they treated communities of color.
And what they said was, this is an American value that we want. This is an American value that we hold, and your dehumanization, your degradation of immigrants, of people of color, your attempts at erasure of our history, all the communities across the board that make up America, Americans did not want that, and they gave essentially the administration and Trump a middle finger at their attempt at doing that. And I think it's a beautiful thing to wake up to that.
Apparently Cardona couldn't hold it in any longer, revealing herself as the radical leftist she is. What happened to the price of gas, tariffs, the economy, the war in Iran, and healthcare? Cardona gave them all the middle finger. This is CNN!
