Gavin Newsom wants your money. Marc Elias wants a courtroom. And together, the California governor and the Democratic Party's favorite election lawyer are setting the stage for a legal brawl over a Mississippi Senate seat that is still too close to call.
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"As you read this, Scott leads the Republican incumbent by just a couple hundred votes," the email reportedly said. "There is no way Republicans are giving up this Senate seat without a fight. The job is not finished!"
Elias, who represented Joe Biden's campaign and later founded Elias Law Group, made his intentions clear on Bluesky. "Scott Colom is going to be the next Senator from Mississippi," he posted. "I am proud that Elias Law Group is leading the legal effort to ensure that happens."
As of Wednesday, Colom led Hyde-Smith by just 43 votes in incomplete, unofficial results. An estimated 44,000 ballots remain outstanding — a mix of absentee, affidavit, and provisional ballots. Under Mississippi law, absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day can arrive through Nov. 10, and voters are allowed to cure certain ballot problems during that window.
The Mississippi Democratic Party has also filed a court challenge alleging delayed polling-place openings, long lines, and ballot shortages in DeSoto County.
This is the same playbook Democrats have run before — flood the zone with lawyers, contest every ballot, and let the courts decide what the voters couldn't. Elias has built an entire career on it, representing Democratic campaign committees and candidates in high-profile election disputes.
But here's what's different: Republicans are already reeling from Tuesday's midterm losses, having lost both chambers of Congress. Democrats are emboldened. Hakeem Jeffries is already running for Speaker. And now Newsom — who is positioning himself for a 2028 presidential run — is using a Mississippi Senate race to raise his national profile and fill his campaign coffers.
"Please help asap," the email reads. It's a familiar refrain from a governor whose state is hemorrhaging residents and businesses, but who never misses a chance to fundraise off a crisis.
Fox News Digital reached out to Elias for additional details about his planned involvement in the race but did not receive a response in time for publication.
President Trump weighed in on the midterm results, conceding that Republicans couldn't "transfer the love" to down-ballot candidates — a rare admission from a president who has reshaped the GOP in his image.
Meanwhile, Democrats are already putting the administration on notice. Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., posted "LAWYER UP" on X. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., posted a single word: "Subpoenas." Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., rattled off a list of Trump officials she wants hauled before Congress: "Noem, Markwayne, Miller, Homan, Bovino, what's up? Clear your schedule."
The message is clear: Democrats aren't interested in governing. They're interested in retribution.
And in Mississippi, they're interested in counting — and recounting — until they get the result they want.
Our Take
Look, folks — this is the same tired script. A Democrat narrowly trails in an uncalled race, and suddenly the legal cavalry rides in. Marc Elias isn't some neutral arbiter of election law. He's the guy who spent 2020 convincing Americans that any Republican win was illegitimate. Now he's "leading the legal effort" to make sure Scott Colom wins — or else.
Notice the language in Newsom's email: "There is no way Republicans are giving up this Senate seat without a fight." As if the GOP is the one trying to steal something. As if Hyde-Smith's lead in a race with 44,000 outstanding ballots is somehow suspect.
Here's the reality: 43 votes is nothing. It's a rounding error. But it's also exactly the kind of margin that Democrats have learned to exploit — ballot curing, provisional ballots, legal challenges, and a media that treats every Elias filing as a noble defense of democracy.
Meanwhile, California's governor — who just watched voters reject his own party's billionaire tax — is out here begging for cash to influence a race 2,000 miles away. Why? Because Newsom isn't just trying to flip a Senate seat. He's trying to build a national fundraising machine for 2028.
Patriots, this is a five-alarm fire. If Elias and Newsom can pull this off — if they can snatch a Senate seat through lawyers and ballot-curing — no Republican seat is safe. The message to every GOP candidate in America will be: win the vote, lose the election.
Time to fight back. Watch Mississippi closely. Demand transparency. And remember: when Democrats say "count every vote," they mean "count until we win."
