# ‘I kept the faith’: Scott Colom’s full victory speech

https://mins.news/en/video/140613

- CNN, 2026-11-12 12:32 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7jOeSZbozU

> Scott Colom said his Senate campaign began with a prayer. He paid tribute to the country’s first Black senator, Hiram Revels, and civil rights figures Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer, saying faith kept him campaigning when others doubted him. In celebrating his win, he credited the victory to collective effort and said he had the courage to imagine the moment.

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