Clock It with Symone & Eugene

Symone Sanders Townsend was bullish all year on the Mississippi DA’s campaign to become the state’s first Democratic senator in 44 years. And after his race was called, Senator-Elect Colom sat down with Symone in his hometown of Columbus. Instead of focusing on becoming the first Black Mississippi Senator since the Reconstruction-era, the Senator-elect chose to look to the road ahead. He highlighted the need to strengthen voting rights, protect rural hospitals, and reinforce checks and balances. “ We did something historic,” said Colom. “And what I gotta do is not only deliver, but also stay very present so they can keep telling me their concerns, I can keep listening, I can stay close to the problem. I don’t want to be a D.C. person. I want to stay a Mississippi person.”

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Four days after the midterms, Clock It taped live in Washington D.C. with the mastermind of Democrats’ response to mid-decade redistricting: former AG Eric Holder. The 75-year-old jumped in the groupchat in front of a relieved and animated crowd of journalists, strategists, and politicians gathered by Crooked Media for their annual event. “ Now that we have this power,” said AG Holder, “we have to use it.” The trio delved into who at the Department of Justice should be fired first, getting rid of the filibuster, and whether or not the fight over gerrymandered districts is over. “I think we're gonna win in ‘28,” he said. “This is not a time for timidity.”

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Instead of bringing just one friend onto the show to discuss the historic 2026 midterms, Symone and Eugene invited the whole groupchat. Tune in to listen to what Vice President Kamala Harris – in her first public reaction to the results – DNC Chair Ken Martin, Michael Steele, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester, Governors Wes Moore and Andy Beshear, Mayor Brandon Scott, SEIU President April Varrett, Jane Kleeb, pollster Terrance Woodbury, South Carolina State Representative Hamilton Grant, and Mike Smith, president of the House Majority PAC, all have to say about what they believe their mandate to be. And detail the plans they’re already putting in motion, from investigations to trying to raise the federal minimum wage to building the infrastructure for 2028.

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President Trump is at his lowest approval rating ever. Polling averages from FiftyPlusOne show Democrats winning in 11 of 15 key Senate races. Its generic ballot test for control of the House asks voters which party’s candidate they would support. Democrats are +9. But the party isn’t declaring victory just yet. Many of them still have a touch of PTSD from election nights in 2016 and 2024. But Clock It’s latest guest – pollster and data journalist G. Elliott Morris – says unless Republicans have secretly generated the biggest get out the vote campaign they’ve ever had, there’s no evidence that Democrats won’t win big. “ The Republicans right now are just hoping, praying for polling error,” said the FiftyPlusOne co-founder. “That's obviously a bad place to be. And like, if you got nothing else, then you're saying all the polls are all rigged.” Symone and Eugene also ask Morris about how FiftyPlusOne ensures the veracity of their reporting, as well as breaking the news about the fake Wedgewood polls that made it into national political coverage, including on MS NOW.

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This week Symone and Eugene joined Nicolle Wallace on her podcast "The Best People" to discuss all things midterms: El-Sayed's low polling with Black voters, Talarico fever in Texas, and could the senate seat in Mississippi... be in play for Democrats? All three MS NOW colleagues talk about the best version of America they’ve seen under Trump 2.0, exemplified by the Minneapolis ICE protests and the “No Kings” marches — times where we rely on community to propel us forward. “There is a world where selfishness is not the way you have to operate in your daily lives” says Eugene. “The only way to do that is to hold hands and jump together.” And Symone agrees: “We're the people, it is literally on us,” she says. “History is going to record that we made a difference.”

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