Jasmine Crockett on Scott Colom's Senate win: "Mississippi has been overlooked"
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[0:00] Want to turn now to Texas Democratic
[0:01] Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett who
[0:03] campaigned for Scott Colum and also
[0:05] appeared in one of his advertisements.
[0:08] Saw the little cameo. That was pretty
[0:10] cool. Uh how did it happen in
[0:12] Mississippi and why did it happen?
[0:13] >> You know, listen, this blue tsunami, it
[0:16] was taking place everywhere in the
[0:17] country. But one of the reasons that
[0:19] Mississippi was so unique is for one of
[0:21] the reasons that was just laid out.
[0:23] There is the highest consolidation of
[0:25] African-American voters right there in
[0:27] Mississippi. So there was opportunity.
[0:29] But Mississippi has been overlooked.
[0:31] That's why part of this campaign was
[0:32] Mississippi matters. He had to keep
[0:34] saying that because it really does
[0:36] matter. The South matters. And so what
[0:39] we saw was national figures head down to
[0:41] Mississippi. What we also saw was
[0:43] finally a couple of dollars, not as
[0:46] much, but a couple of dollars that went
[0:48] >> the chairman of the DNC was on my
[0:49] program last week and he said
[0:50] Mississippi was one of those places
[0:52] where th