By Townhall Chicago News Staff
Former Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Columbus, Mississippi, for Democrat Scott Colom, who is running to unseat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, Fox News Radio correspondent David Spunt said in a broadcast.
The stop puts Harris, the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nominee, in a state Democrats have not carried in a statewide race in decades, underscoring an effort by national Democrats to compete in traditionally Republican territory during the midterm cycle.
“Former Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail in Mississippi, campaigning for the challenger running to unseat Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith,” Spunt said.
Harris told the crowd not to let others define her limits, according to an audio clip of her remarks aired during the broadcast.
“Let somebody else’s limited ability to see your capacity be a limitation on your ambition,” Harris said.
Spunt also described Harris’s speech using the phrase “word salad,” a characterization from his own report rather than a direct quote from any neutral source.
President Trump, meanwhile, campaigned about 650 miles away in Fort Myers, Florida, for Republican Byron Donalds’ bid for governor, Spunt said. Donalds, a sitting U.S. representative from Florida, is seeking to succeed term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“The president was in Fort Myers, Florida, stumping for Byron Donalds to become the next governor of the Sunshine State,” Spunt said.
Fox News Radio anchor Roger Stern, who introduced Spunt’s report, said Trump also plans to travel to Mississippi in the coming days to rally for Hyde-Smith. The broadcast did not provide a specific date for that trip or additional details on the Mississippi Senate race’s polling.
The dual campaign stops illustrate contrasting strategies by the two parties heading into the November midterms, with Democrats pushing into red-state territory in Mississippi and Republicans shoring up support in a competitive Florida governor’s race.
Both candidates’ stops came the same week early voting opened in several states and polling tightened in multiple Senate and gubernatorial races nationwide, including in Texas and Georgia, according to the same broadcast.
Hyde-Smith has represented Mississippi in the Senate since 2018, when she won a special election, and was reelected in 2020. Harris served as vice president from 2021 to 2025 before becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in the 2024 election.
Fox News Radio’s broadcast did not include response or rebuttal from Harris’s campaign regarding the “word salad” characterization, nor did it include comment from Trump’s campaign on the Florida governor’s race beyond the rally report.
