Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D-Miss.) trolled his defeated GOP rival, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, with a three-word placard during his victory speech Wednesday after he was finally projected to win the midterm race in deep-red Mississippi.
Colom, who will become the state’s first Black U.S. senator since the Reconstruction era, addressed supporters at Tougaloo College from behind a lectern bearing the words “Picked Another Senator.”
The message was a cheeky nod to a viral campaign ad featuring voters mocking Hyde-Smith’s spin on soaring beef prices.
She claimed that people “have so many proteins to choose from.”
“Pick another protein? Shiiit, I’d rather pick another senator instead,” one voter said in the clip, while flipping a burger.
“Pick another protein? She gone lost her damn mind, I’d rather pick another senator,” said another.
“Pick another protein? What the f..,” said a third, before Colom cut in to say, “Pick another senator instead.”
The victory speech placard drew praise on social media, where one user summed it up with a pinched-fingers emoji, widely used to denote a “chef’s kiss.” The phrase “picked another senator” trended on X.