President Trump praised Sen.-elect Scott Colom's upset victory in the Mississippi Senate race, crediting the Democrat for winning over Republican voters. "I don't know the gentleman, but I give him credit," Trump said during a White House interview with Stephen A. Smith.<\/p>\n
Trump acknowledged Colom's efforts to appeal across party lines in the competitive race.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> thehill.com \u2014 Trump on Colom\u2019s Mississippi Senate win: \u2018I give him a lot of credit\u2019<\/a>. Also reported by MS NOW<\/a>, CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n Scott Colom, Mississippi Senate, Donald J. Trump, Stephen A. Smith, Election 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Trump praised Sen.-elect Scott Colom’s upset victory in the Mississippi Senate race, crediting the Democrat for winning over Republican voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,2],"tags":[110,63,974,435,975],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","category-politics","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-election-2026","tag-mississippi-senate","tag-scott-colom","tag-stephen-a-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}