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  Speaker 1: BIN News This Hour, I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up... We're
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  Speaker 1: prepared for this moment.
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  Speaker 2: We have been planning for this scenario for weeks. We
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  Speaker 2: will protect the process. This election will protect the integrity
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  Speaker 2: of this election.
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  Speaker 1: The number of incoming black senators could increase by one
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  Speaker 1: as the vote count continues in a race in the
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  Speaker 1: Deep South. The black mayor of a major U.S. city
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  Speaker 1: is on the verge of losing her bid for reelection and...
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  Speaker 1: I belong to you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I belong to the Virgin Islands. Your sacrifices are part
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  Speaker 1: of my story.
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  Speaker 3: Your hopes.
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  Speaker 3: Are the culmination of my purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Another historic first, this one in the Virgin Islands. But first,
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  Speaker 1: here's B.I.N. News Now.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats have secured majorities in both the U.S. House and Senate.
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  Speaker 3: NBC News projects Democrats will gain full control of Congress
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  Speaker 3: in January after sweeping the midterm elections. Seven Senate seats
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  Speaker 3: were flipped by Democrats on Tuesday. Democrats will also hold
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  Speaker 3: a majority in the House. Colorado voters are still waiting
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  Speaker 3: for final results on Amendment 87. a proposal that would
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  Speaker 3: replace the state's flat income tax with a graduated system.
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  Speaker 3: Michael Fields, president of Advance Colorado, spoke out. I do
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  Speaker 3: think the chart being on the ballot had a huge
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  Speaker 3: impact because people looked at it individually, maybe not looked
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  Speaker 3: at the impact of businesses. Jerry's election is continuing today
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  Speaker 3: in the federal death penalty trial of Buffalo supermarket shooter
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  Speaker 3: Peyton Grendon. Grendon has already pleaded guilty to opening fire
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  Speaker 3: inside a top store back in 2022, killing 10 Black
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  Speaker 3: people in what's being called a racially motivated attack. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Alexandria Icamoni with BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Alexandria. The winner of the Mississippi Senate race
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  Speaker 1: is still undecided. Officials there say it's still too early
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  Speaker 1: to call the race between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican
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  Speaker 1: Cindy Hyde-Smith. When speaking to supporters yesterday, Colom, who is Black,
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  Speaker 1: expressed his confidence in the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: The bottom line is this is the beginning of a
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  Speaker 2: new direction for our state. We are going to win this.
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  Speaker 2: We have already showed the country that Mississippi matters, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're just going to finish the job by doing
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  Speaker 2: our part to protect the process, to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we've got everything organized. I'm very confident about where we are,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm very confident that we're going to win.
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  Speaker 1: Colon is asking anyone who voted by affidavit and did
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  Speaker 1: not have an ID to please reach out to his office.
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  Speaker 1: You can do that at 888-300-4350. Again, that's 888-300-4350. He
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  Speaker 1: says you have until Tuesday, November 10th to respond. A
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  Speaker 1: Cologne win would take the total incoming Democratic Senate count
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  Speaker 1: to 55 and yield two new black senators-elect, Illinois Lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: Governor Juliana Stratton being the other. Votes are still being
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  Speaker 1: counted in the Los Angeles mayor's race. According to The
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Reporter, at least one independent polling site is declaring L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Councilwoman Nithya Raman the winner, but no official projections or
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  Speaker 1: election official has made such declarations. Raman reportedly is currently
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  Speaker 1: up by more than 3 percent, with the expectations her
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  Speaker 1: vote count could increase once mail-in ballots are counted. BIN
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  Speaker 1: will continue to monitor the race and bring you updates
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  Speaker 1: once they are available. Congressional Delegate Stacey Plaskett is making history.
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  Speaker 1: She is now governor-elect of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the
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  Speaker 1: first woman elected to the office. During her acceptance speech,
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  Speaker 1: she spoke of her belief in the people there.
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  Speaker 3: I have traveled from New York to South Africa, from
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  Speaker 3: Qatar to London and Paris, from Barbados to Brazil, from
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta to Georgia. Everywhere I go, I have.
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  Speaker 2: Seen that Virgin Islanders can stand alongside anyone, anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: But that greatness is already here.
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  Speaker 2: Our responsibility is to give it room to rise.
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  Speaker 1: Plaskett served as one of nine House managers during the
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  Speaker 1: impeachment of President Trump during his first term. She also
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  Speaker 1: made history as the first delegate from a territory appointed
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  Speaker 1: as a ranking member of a select committee during the
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  Speaker 1: 118th Congress, that committee being the select subcommittee on the
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  Speaker 1: weaponization of the federal government. This is BIN News This Hour.
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  Speaker 1: Be sure to follow us wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andrea Coleman on the Black Information Network, home of
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  Speaker 1: Black News First.