“The Daily Show” correspondent Desi Lydic rubbed some salt in the fresh wound of soon-to-be-former Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Thursday, following Democrat Scott Colom’s massive election upset.
“By the way, if you’re a Mississippi Republican, don’t feel too bad that Cindy Hyde-Smith lost this race. Based on how much she likes dressing like a Confederate soldier, she’s been celebrating losers her whole life,” Lydic said while showing a picture of Hyde-Smith dressed as a Confederate soldier.
Lydic then highlighted the fact that Hyde-Smith helped block Colom’s appointment to a federal judgeship and noted her premature celebration last week when the senator believed she had been reelected.
“She was pretty smug about it on election night when she thought she won,” Lydic said.
“I blocked Scott Colom from being a federal judge, and you blocked him from being a U.S. senator,” Hyde-Smith said to a crowd of supporters on election night.
“Make sure you get a video of me braggin’ about this because I’m going to want to watch it later,” Lydic said, mocking Hyde-Smith’s Southern accent.
Lydic added that it wasn’t just a huge day for Black Americans, but a huge day for “petty people who live for revenge.”
The Associated Press finally projected Colom to be the winner on Thursday, making him the first Black person elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era.
Watch Lydic’s full opening segment from Thursday night’s show here: