Latest / BIN News This Hour / BIN News This Hour

Transcript

BIN News This Hour · BIN News This Hour

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: BIN News This Hour, I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: We're prepared for this moment. We have been planning for
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: this scenario for weeks. We will protect the process of
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: this election. We will protect the integrity of this election.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: An update on Scott Colon maintaining a lead in Mississippi
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Senate race and.
• 0:19
  Speaker 3: We had a historic night, the best election in the
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: Democratic Governors Association's history. We will have 30 Democratic governors,
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: the most we've had since 2010.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear talks about the kind of investment
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: made to ensure the wins of three Black Democratic governors elect.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: But first, here's BIN News Now.
• 0:40
  Speaker 4: Black House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has officially announced his
• 0:43
  Speaker 4: bid for Speaker of the House. In a letter Wednesday,
• 0:46
  Speaker 4: Jeffries pledged to prioritize affordability under the new Democratic majority.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: We're going to fight hard for every single American.
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: Wherever you.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: May reside.
• 0:59
  Speaker 4: Leadership elections are November 18th. If elected, Jeffries would become
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: the first Black House speaker. NBC News is now projecting
• 1:06
  Speaker 4: Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman will become Los Angeles' next mayor,
• 1:09
  Speaker 4: defeating Black incumbent Karen Bass. Raman leads by nearly 35,000
• 1:13
  Speaker 4: votes with more than 52% of the vote. And rapper
• 1:17
  Speaker 4: Nicki Minaj's attorneys are asking a judge to let them
• 1:19
  Speaker 4: withdraw from a lawsuit involving unpaid travel and production expenses.
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: According to TMZ, the lawyers cite irreconcilable differences and say
• 1:27
  Speaker 4: they've struggled to contact Minaj and her husband about their decision.
• 1:31
  Speaker 4: They also claim the couple has a habit of not
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: answering their phones, making communication difficult. I'm Amber Payton with
• 1:37
  Speaker 4: BIN News Now. Back to you, Andrea.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Amber. It seems like the outcome of the
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: Senate race in Mississippi may not be known until next week.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Officials there are giving voters who cast affidavit ballots without
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: an ID time to correct their oversight. During a press
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: conference yesterday, Democratic candidate Scott Colom expressed his confidence in
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: the outcome.
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: The bottom line is this is the beginning of a
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: new direction for our state. We are going to win this.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: We have already showed the country that Mississippi matters, y'all.
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: Now we're just going to finish the job by doing
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: our part to protect the process, to make sure that
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: we've got everything organized. I'm very confident about where we are,
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: and I'm very confident that we're going to win.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: Voters who cast affidavit ballots without an ID have until
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: Tuesday of next week to contact election officials. At last count, Cologne,
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: who is black, is leading incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith by
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: a slight margin. Officials are calling the race too close
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: to call. If elected, Cologne would become the first black
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: person elected to the Senate for Mississippi since Reconstruction. The
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Democratic Governors Association invested more than $ 70 million in the
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: campaigns of Democratic candidates for governor this year. That includes
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: the three black candidates who won their races. Kentucky Governor
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Andy Beshear spoke with BIN yesterday about the importance of
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: that kind of investment.
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: Fortunately, there is a lot of money in politics these days,
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: and we play to win. And so we invested to
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: make sure that there was an answer to all of
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: these mean and nasty ads we would see from the
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: other side that we could support our candidates. You look
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: at Georgia, where we were able to directly support that campaign.
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: A significant portion of their budget was the Democratic Governors Association.
• 3:19
  Speaker 3: But we believed in Keisha Lance Bottoms and what she represented.
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: She is also a turnout machine. She turned out voters
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: in a way that very few people can. It was
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: an amazing partnership. I think we did $ 19 million in
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: that race, about 17 and a half in Nevada and
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: in Wisconsin. So very strong support for people that we
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: believed in.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: Governor Beshear says in many instances the donations were needed
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: because of the vast amounts of money Republicans were pouring
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: into the election. Major donors included Elon Musk, who put
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: over $ 200 million in the Texas governor and Senate races.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: But we will have more from Governor Beshear next hour
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: when he puts his own spin on the success of
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: black Democratic candidates in this election and what their collective
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: rise to the highest positions of leadership in their respective
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: states means for the country. This is BIA News This Hour.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Be sure to follow us wherever you get your podcasts.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: I'm Andrea Coleman on the Black Information Network, home of
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: Black News First.