Desi Lydic Takes Swipe At Outgoing GOP Senator With Awkward Election Night Moment

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The Daily Show's Desi Lydic mocks Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith after Democrat Scott Colom upset her in Mississippi, becoming the first Black U.S. senator from the state since Reconstruction — and after Hyde-Smith had blocked his judgeship and celebrated a premature win. Lydic jokes Hyde-Smith has "been celebrating losers her whole life," given her taste for Confederate garb, and calls the win huge for Black Americans and "petty people who live for revenge."

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