{"id":81243,"date":"2026-11-12T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/i-had-the-courage-to-believe-in-mississippi-says-scott-colom-after-historic-senate-win-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:55:51","slug":"i-had-the-courage-to-believe-in-mississippi-says-scott-colom-after-historic-senate-win-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/i-had-the-courage-to-believe-in-mississippi-says-scott-colom-after-historic-senate-win-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I had the courage to believe in Mississippi\u2019 says Scott Colom after historic Senate win \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colom adds to blue wave of Democrat victories across the US and becomes Mississippi\u2019s first black senator since 1875 after defeating Cindy Hyde-Smith<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Continuing his Truth Social ranting, Donald Trump said he has asked the vice-president, JD Vance, to turn his \u201ccomplete and total attention\u201d to alleged corruption in Democratic-run cities and states, while also declaring that the US no longer needs a deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest post this morning, Trump singled out Minnesota, California and Illinois as \u201cpoorly run, corrupt disasters\u201d and claimed that \u201cbillions of dollars is being stolen each and every month\u201d. He argued that the federal budget \u201ccould be quickly BALANCED\u201d if what he called large-scale criminal activity were stopped, and said corruption was \u201cin the Democrat Leadership\u2019s blood\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership\u2019s blood! We don\u2019t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We\u2019ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we\u2019ve got their Strait!<\/p>\n<p>If the Democrats want to \u201croot out corruption,\u201d they should start with investigating Blue States, perhaps the most CORRUPT governmental structures and entities anywhere on Earth. Big time money is being stolen each and every hour of the day!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, good luck to our Republican Senators, work hard, and congratulations to John Thune for another year of leadership, Minority though it may be!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/12\/mississippi-scott-colom-ukraine-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colom adds to blue wave of Democrat victories across the US and becomes Mississippi\u2019s first black senator since 1875 after defeating Cindy Hyde-Smith Sign up for the Breaking News US email Continuing his Truth Social ranting, Donald Trump said he has asked the vice-president, JD Vance, to turn his \u201ccomplete and total attention\u201d to alleged &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I had the courage to believe in Mississippi\u2019 says Scott Colom after historic Senate win \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/i-had-the-courage-to-believe-in-mississippi-says-scott-colom-after-historic-senate-win-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I had the courage to believe in Mississippi\u2019 says Scott Colom after historic Senate win \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}