Scott Bessent moved to military base, Mississippi counts Senate race votes, more | The Takeout

Name: Scott Bessent moved to military base, Mississippi counts Senate race votes, more | The Takeout
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[0:00] Mississippi counting the results of a

[0:03] close and potentially historic Senate

[0:05] race coming into focus. Our Mark Stman

[0:07] is there and Anthony Salvanto has the

[0:10] latest numbers. Democratic socialists

[0:13] were always going to be outnumbered in a

[0:16] House Democratic majority. But that's

[0:18] even more true in a caucus with nearly

[0:20] 260 seats. How will they navigate? We

[0:23] asked DSA Congressman elect Chris Rab.

[0:27] He voted for Trump in 2016 in West

[0:29] Virginia, ran for Congress as a Democrat

[0:32] from there in 2018, lost. But in this

[0:34] cycle, running in North Carolina, he

[0:36] beat a member of the GOP leadership.

[0:39] Richard O'Hada joins us.

[0:50] Hello everyone, I'm Major Garren in

[0:51] Washington. Let me welcome you to the

[0:53] Takeout. On this Veterans Day, we're

[0:54] going to spend some time in Mississippi

[0:57] in the Senate race where Democratic

[0:58] nominee Scott Colom leads Republican

[1:00] incumbent Cindy Hyde Smith, excuse me,

[1:03] by a bit more than 4,000 votes. You can

[1:06] see the latest tally here and our

[1:08] current CBS News projection as a lean

[1:12] Democratic state. If Colom wins, this is

[1:15] interesting. Pay attention to this. He

[1:16] would be the first black senator from

[1:18] Mississippi since reconstruction.

[1:21] When in the waning years of that federal

[1:24] intervention in the south to protect

[1:26] black voting rights as well as other

[1:27] rights, a gentleman named Blanch Bruce,

[1:31] who was born into slavery in Virginia,

[1:34] won election in Mississippi. The year

[1:36] was 1874.

[1:38] Now, by 1880, reconstruction was over

[1:41] and Jim Crow ascended. As such, Bruce

[1:44] was defeated by someone named James

[1:46] George, a Confederat