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CNN projects Democrat Scott Colom wins the Mississippi Senate race: Jake Tapper: Democrats now gaining their 55th U.S. Senate seat with a Scott Colom victory over Republican incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Steve Kornacki on the NC redraw: The redraw was supposed to give Republicans more seats. It seems to have, in part, fired up a Democratic base. All of these double-digit Trump districts either flipped to Democrats or came close to flipping.

Steve Kornacki on Richard Hudson: Richard Hudson is a member of congressional Republican leadership. He was running the campaign arm of congressional Republicans, the NRCC, and he lost his own district in North Carolina, a district, again, that Trump had carried by 16 points.

Beto O’Rourke on what Democrats must do now: Deliver for everyone and make sure we feel it right away. In Texas, that means raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to something you can actually live on, while we expand Medicaid and then invest in our local schools.

Harry Enten on Scott Colom: He will be the first Democratic senator elected from Mississippi since 1982. In my opinion, this is probably the biggest Senate upset in at least the last 20 years.

Beto O’Rourke on why Texas flipped: “The war in Iran, the high prices, the corruption, the cruelty. You know, not just ICE terrorizing communities, breaking up families, kidnapping kids, but shooting and killing Lorenzo Salgado in Houston.

Harry Enten: Scott Colom is right. The additional ballots that have been added have made his lead grow. In the land of politics and recounts, it is as wide as the Atlantic Ocean.

Joe Biden on his cancer: I’m not saying I’ll live forever, but the point is that I feel good so far. The two tests they did to see whether the cancer has spread indicate it has not spread. Doesn’t mean it won’t, but it hasn’t. And I still have all my faculties.

Joe Biden on his grandkids: They call me Pop. ‘Can we come up, Pop? What are you doing, Pop?’ They’re the loves of my life. There’s not a day that goes by, not an exaggeration, that I don’t talk to one of my grandkids.

Abdul El-Sayed: Why are you still doing this job? You are really bad at this. You are failing in your responsibilities. You have mishandled this war. Just resign.

Peggy Flanagan on making history: I am so excited to think about how different [my daughter’s] whole life and the lives of other Native kids can be simply because they see someone who looks like them serving in these positions.

Peggy Flanagan: My mom had a Section 8 housing voucher. We’ve relied on a lot of public programs like Section 8 to pay the rent, or SNAP, which back in the day we called food stamps. Medical assistance paid our bills when I would get sick. It was a real lifesaver for us.

AOC on a Senate run: “The last thing that people want to hear from me or any other politician here is about the next election. What they actually wanna hear from us is about what we are going to do with the electoral results they just gave us on Tuesday.”

Scott Colom on the Mississippi Senate count: “The absentee ballots always trend Democratic. It’s time to start focusing on the people of Mississippi. I’m ready to serve as their next United States senator.”

Adam Mockler to Jillian Michaels on Talarico: “People weren’t largely voting based on trans issues. Talarico wasn’t running on trans issues. All of the economic issues, like the Iran war, superseded the God is non-binary statement.”

Pete Buttigieg to Patrick Bet-David on taxing the rich: Does it bother you that much for money to go to cops, firefighters, streets, and schools? What’s so bad about that?

Pete Buttigieg on Canada: “The president’s done so much to piss them off. Canadians are the most polite, laid-back people I can think of, and they are pissed.” Vegas workers call it a “Trump slump” as Canadians stop visiting.

Pete Buttigieg on East Palestine: “The same week that the president went there and gave out cheeseburgers, I went out there and laid out railway safety reforms. Congressional Republicans… were nowhere to be found when I was trying to get votes.”

Rob Sand on putting a Republican and an Independent on his transition team: “I want to have people around who think differently than me. The best decisions that you make are the ones where you listen to people that you think you disagree with.”

Rob Sand on Medicaid: “When Governor Branstad privatized Medicaid, he actually did it so quickly that the federal government told him he had to slow down. This is not a thing that we can do overnight, but my intention is that that process begins on day one.”