U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, a Democrat from Maryland, campaigned with Scott Colom, Mississippi’s Democratic Senate nominee, in Jackson on Saturday, where she encouraged voters to support Colom because he will prioritize access to affordable healthcare.
“I feel every single seat is important in our country right now, as we’re trying to get back to a place where we are focused again on the middle class in this country,” Alsobrooks told Mississippi Today in an interview.
Alsobrooks joined Colom and several healthcare advocates at the Capital Club in downtown Jackson on Saturday morning, where they pointed to Mississippi’s dire maternal health metrics, which are some of the worst in the nation, as a need for a senator who will vote to protect against cuts to Medicaid.
Around a dozen people shared stories about their struggles obtaining affordable health care and about family members who have died giving birth in Mississippi.
“We reject as a premise that we should ever accept that you cannot afford healthcare,” Alsobrooks said.
Colom has made health care a central focus of his campaign and has pointed out that thousands of Mississippians have dropped health insurance plans they had through the Affordable Care Act.
Active enrollment in the plans fell by about 70,000 people in Mississippi between February 2025 and February 2026, a nearly 25% drop, according to new federal data. People are dropping their plans because enhanced federal tax credits, which made health insurance more affordable for 22 million Americans, expired in December.
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Scott Colom speaks in Jackson on Aug. 1, 2026.Congress first authorized the expanded subsidies in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mississippi was one of the states that benefited the most from the increased federal support.
Both Colom and Alsobrooks criticized Colom’s opponent, Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, for backing the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill that slashed Medicaid benefits and largely gave tax breaks to higher-income earners.
Jake Monssen, Hyde-Smith’s campaign manager, told Mississippi Today in a statement that he encourages the Colom campaign to “continue campaigning on raising taxes and giving illegal immigrants free healthcare.”
“Both issues that may sell to his Massachusetts supporters, but not in Mississippi,” Monssen said.
Colom and Alsobrooks also planned to speak at a town hall in Jackson on Saturday evening about voting rights, alongside Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson and Mississippi NAACP Director Charles Taylor.
Alsobrooks is the first U.S. senator to campaign for Colom. She is the first Black person elected to the U.S. Senate from Maryland and is the third Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
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