President Donald Trump repeatedly asked voters to “pretend that I’m on the ballot.” They did. A blue tsunami wiped out Trump’s surrogates and enablers.

Billionaires, led by Elon Musk, spent hundreds of millions of dollars in a desperate effort to retain Republican-control of Congress. The oligarchs were trumped by the votes of ordinary Americans who are struggling with the high cost of living.

The tsunami of votes for Scott Colom flipped Forrest County which is named for Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest. If Colom maintains his lead over Cindy Hyde-Smith, he will defeat the senator who blocked his judicial nomination and become the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction.

For Republicans, it was a rainy night in Georgia where Black women won eight statewide offices.

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the great-great-granddaughter of Sheppard Peek who was born into slavery, will be sworn in as the nation’s first Black female governor. Bottoms’ late father, Major Lance, is smiling with pride from his heavenly perch and saying, “Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um.”