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  Speaker 1: BIN News This Hour. I'm Doug Davis. Happy Friday. Coming up,
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  Speaker 1: the NAACP reacts to President Trump's White House Chief of
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  Speaker 1: Staff replacement, Stephen Miller. Plus, more Democratic House victories are
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  Speaker 1: on the horizon. And in Mississippi, Black Senate candidate Scott
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  Speaker 1: Colum sees a path to victory. These stories and more
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  Speaker 1: news affecting Black America are on the way this hour.
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  Speaker 1: But first, here's BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles Mayor-elect Nithya Raman is celebrating her victory after
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  Speaker 2: black incumbent Karen Bass conceded. And I want to tell
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  Speaker 2: every single Angeleno out there, I am going to work
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  Speaker 2: so hard and everyone behind me is going to work
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  Speaker 2: so hard to earn your trust. Raman says she's proud
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  Speaker 2: to be an immigrant leading a city of immigrants. The
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Socialist declined to say whether she'll replace Police Chief
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  Speaker 2: Jim McDonald or reduce the city's police force. Illinois House
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  Speaker 2: Speaker Emanuel Chris Welch says he will not seek another
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  Speaker 2: term as speaker following pressure from 26 Democratic lawmakers. The
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  Speaker 2: Black Caucus is expected to push to retain the leadership position.
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  Speaker 2: Welch has faced criticism over his handling of sexual harassment
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  Speaker 2: allegations involving a former lawmaker, but will remain a state representative.
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  Speaker 2: And Mississippi's U.S. Senate race remains too close to call.
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  Speaker 2: Black Democrat Scott Colum holds a narrow lead over Republican
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  Speaker 2: incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, with thousands of absentee and affidavit ballots
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  Speaker 2: still awaiting review. I'm Amber Payton with BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 2: Back to you, Doug.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. Most Black Americans were shocked to learn
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  Speaker 1: today that President Trump selected Stephen Miller as the new
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  Speaker 1: White House Chief of Staff. Miller will succeed Susie Wiles.
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  Speaker 1: Trump made the announcement on True Social and touched on
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  Speaker 1: the topic while speaking to reporters in the rain outside
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  Speaker 1: of the White House. Stephen Miller will be the new
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  Speaker 1: chief of staff, and Susie's going to go over to
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  Speaker 1: the political operation. What do you want Stephen Miller to do?
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  Speaker 1: Just run things well. NAACP President Derek Johnson disapproves of
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  Speaker 1: the decision. Color of Change's Nadine Smith says it creates
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  Speaker 1: greater risks for Black communities and called for Congress to
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  Speaker 1: scrutinize Miller for alleged misconduct for his role in ICE enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: Critics have labeled him as a white nationalist and a
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  Speaker 1: white supremacist and said his legal organization helped block debt
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  Speaker 1: relief intended for black farmers and is the force behind
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  Speaker 1: the elimination of DEI in the workplace. Meanwhile, CNN projects
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  Speaker 1: Democrats will win at least 250 House seats and will
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  Speaker 1: control Congress no matter the outcome of the tight Mississippi race.
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  Speaker 1: Black Democratic candidate for Senate. Scott Colum says he's still
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  Speaker 1: very confident that he'll defeat Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith as
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  Speaker 1: the race is still undecided. Colum is still leading and
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  Speaker 1: told CNN he expects even more votes to come in
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  Speaker 1: in his favor as ballots continue to be processed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, what I said at the press conference on
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday is the vote tolls are going to move in
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  Speaker 3: my direction. And I've been proven correct, right, because I
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  Speaker 3: understand how the votes move in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: Hyde-Smith's campaign expects her to win. There's even talks that
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  Speaker 1: Republican officials might challenge the results if he pulls through
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  Speaker 1: with a W.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we have an army of lawyers ready to
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  Speaker 3: protect this result because, you know, the voters chose to
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  Speaker 3: go in a new direction and we have to respect that.
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  Speaker 3: And I would hope that, you know, the people on
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  Speaker 3: the other side, the Republican Party, will understand it's about
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  Speaker 3: accepting the will of the voters. It's about moving forward
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  Speaker 3: in a direction that's actually going to focus on the needs.
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  Speaker 1: Of the people. Colum could become Mississippi's first black U.S.
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  Speaker 1: senator since Reconstruction. The NAACP has deployed members and volunteers
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  Speaker 1: to watch how officials review outstanding provisional ballots. Voters whose
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  Speaker 1: ballots require photo ID have until Tuesday, November 10th to
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  Speaker 1: provide it. And Colum is expected to win, of course.
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  Speaker 1: And as I mentioned earlier, Mississippi has not had a
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  Speaker 1: black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. You may not be aware,
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  Speaker 1: but Colum and Highsmith, they know each other pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: It was four years ago when President Trump nominated him
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  Speaker 1: to the federal bench, but one year later, the senator
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  Speaker 1: used a congressional procedure to keep Colvin from becoming a
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  Speaker 1: federal district judge by using what's called the Mississippi Blue Slip.
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  Speaker 1: He's currently a district attorney for Mississippi's 16th Circuit Court
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  Speaker 1: and lives in Columbus, Mississippi, the county seat of Lowndes County.
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  Speaker 1: Its racial history, of course, includes slavery, but a few
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  Speaker 1: years before the Civil War began, the county had a
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  Speaker 1: population of 16,000. 71% were enslaved Africans. Stay connected and
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  Speaker 1: your podcasts. I'm Doug Davis for the Black Information Network.