The Clay Edwards Show

**Mississippi Senate Race Chaos: How a Voter Roll Screw-Up May Have Cost Republicans**
Clay Edwards and attorney Shaun Yurtkuran break down the Cindy Hyde-Smith vs. Scott Colom race and the massive affidavit ballot mess that followed. Roughly 17,000 affidavit ballots are outstanding after Experian data—used under a 2023 election integrity law—incorrectly flagged legitimate voters as inactive, including people who’ve voted consistently for decades. The problem was known after a Lafayette County test run, yet it still hit statewide.
They dig into who is responsible (Secretary of State’s office vs. local election commissioners), the low postcard response rate, why the usual 150 affidavits per county ballooned, and whether this was intentional or just a costly incompetence. Plus: the perfect storm of candidate quality, voter apathy, crossover votes, and third-party candidates that made the race so close, and what a challenge in the U.S. Senate would actually look like.
No conspiracy theories—just a messy, bipartisan data failure with real consequences.

**The Clay Edwards Show — Post-Election Reckoning with Creston Berch & Jamie Creel**
Clay is joined by retired police officer Creston Berch and Jamie Creel for a no-filter breakdown of the midterm blue wave that hit Mississippi and the country. They dig into Cindy Hyde-Smith’s weak performance against Scott Colom—running almost entirely on “I’m not the Democrat,” the protein comment that landed badly, skipped key votes (including the Save America Act), and treating conservative voters as a guaranteed hold-your-nose bloc. Callers and the studio agree a lot of Republicans either stayed home or voted blue; an “R” next to the name is no longer enough.
Discussion covers the broader GOP problem of bad candidates and cuck conservatism, whether the right response is to go further right or try to ride the middle, and the long-term risk if Mississippi doesn’t redistrict (especially shrinking the Bennie Thompson district the way Tennessee handled Memphis). National angles include the election of a Muslim senator in Michigan with alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties and the larger shift that has people worried, the Iran war’s drag on the economy and voter mood, and the sense that Gen X got skipped while Boomers stayed in power.
Local heat includes Kenneth Stokes telling Muslim protesters at a Jackson City Council meeting to “take the rags off your head” and then doubling down—Clay’s take is that Stokes has the right enemies and the council meetings are better entertainment than most reality TV. They also hit black-on-black crime, police response times, and why certain politicians still refuse to talk to the state’s largest conservative audience.
Clay frames the results as short-term pain that might force a long-overdue reckoning if people stop settling for do-nothing candidates and start demanding real ones. Truth over optics, no commercial breaks, no station ID filler.

Clay’s not here for just declaring the Hideaway a nuisance and calling it a day. As a former Jackson club owner who never had a shooting inside his spot because he spent more on security than rent, he lays out the actual fix for these scandalous promoters: make them get a promoter license, put up a cash bond based on the building’s occupancy, prove special-event insurance, and hire real law enforcement (or retired LE) who will actually enforce the count and check for guns. No bond, no license, no party. If something goes sideways, they lose the bond and the license until they’re cleared. If they can’t afford to put skin in the game, they don’t need to be throwing events. Personal accountability over empty press conferences.

One of the best calls the show’s ever had. A black conservative caller (the Doctor) goes scorched earth on why no real conservative tells pollsters the truth, when he realized the media was full of it (the Obama cheerleading era), their favorite childhood-photo trick on Trayvon and local cases, why they ignore black-on-black crime, and how the schools keep kids uneducated so they’ll just believe whatever NBC or CNN says. Clay didn’t want to hang up.

**Election Day Reality with Zack Servis: Media Lies, a Scorched-Earth Caller, Hideaway Accountability, and Why Shutting the Club Down Ain’t the Fix**
Clay’s on a vibe and calling it early: red tsunami, full control, supermajority. Polls are mental warfare, the media’s running the same play they ran in ’16, ’20, and ’24, and history says they lose when they tell Republicans not to bother. Then a black conservative caller (the Doctor) drops one of the best calls the show’s ever had—media bias from the Obama era, Trayvon Martin photo tricks, schools teaching oppression instead of agency, and why the black-on-black crime the media ignores is the real story. Clay and Servis pick it up from there: race narratives don’t have to exist, personal accountability does, and identity politics is just another idol.
Servis (local politico and community activist) keeps it real on courageous conversations, why “my side good, your side bad” is a dead end, and how the culture of the Kingdom beats rainbow cowboy hats and political identity every time. They hit revivals, Fulton Sheen, why the rapture doctrine is newer than people think, and the hard truth that suicide doesn’t automatically punch a ticket to hell—salvation is faith, not works. Heavy, honest, and no sugar-coating.
Then they cleanse the palate with Jackson crime. Mayor Horn and Chief Bragney’s press conference on the second deadly shooting at the Hideaway (same promoter who had issues at Grant’s Downs) gets the full treatment: no real accountability from the city, promoters who treat security like an afterthought, and JPD telling venues to handle parking lots they don’t control. Clay lays out the practical fix instead of just declaring nuisance and shutting the place down—promoter licenses, occupancy-based bonds, required law-enforcement or retired-LE security, insurance, and actual security plans. If you can’t put skin in the game and follow the rules, you don’t get to throw the party. They also dig into the $100 million Model Cities money for JPD: earmark it, show the receipts in real time on the open-data portal, and stop letting general-fund games eat it.
Straight talk on election night energy, media propaganda, faith over politics, and a concrete way to deal with the promoter problem without pretending every venue is the enemy. Guest Zack Servis keeps the heat high and the excuses low.

Shaun Yurtkuran jumped on for the rest of hour 1 and the top of hour 2 to break down the Cindy Hyde-Smith vs. Scott Colom Senate race. They covered the record early voting, the Black Votes Matter ground game, and whether Mississippi could actually flip a seat that hasn’t been truly contested in decades. Colom’s ad team got credit for running circles around everyone else (Halloween spoof, Medgar Evers closer, the whole package), while they questioned why Cindy never seems to catch fire with voters even though she votes the right way. They also hit the difference between campaigning and governing, one-party rule complacency, and the messy Hinds County DA race sideshow before Malcolm Johnson called in to stir the pot. Straight talk on a race that has people nervous for the first time in a long while.

**The Clay Edwards Show – Episode Description**
Jackson was a killing field over the weekend (again). Double homicide and multiple wounded at a nightclub, plus mass shootings in Dallas, Birmingham, and elsewhere. Clay opens solo with a scorched-earth take on culture rot, black-on-black violence, selective outrage, and why the “justice for” crowd stays silent when the body count is their own.
Shaun Yurtkuran joins for the rest of hour 1 and the top of hour 2 for a deep dive into the Cindy Hyde-Smith vs. Scott Colom Senate race. Record early voting, Black Votes Matter ground game, Colom’s slick ads (Halloween spoof + Medgar Evers closer), and whether Mississippi could actually flip. They break down campaigning vs. governing, why Cindy doesn’t fire people up, one-party rule problems, and the Hinds County DA mudslinging (Gwen Ago, Lisa Ross, Republican stickers, and the address drop drama).
Then Lisa Ross herself calls in during the second segment of hour 2. Clay and the attorney go at it live — Anthony Fox case, residency, tax dollars, political transparency, stickers, and who gets to opine on Jackson. Entertaining, pointed, and no punches pulled.
Clay closes the last two segments solo with the Tucker Carlson “nuke Pickaxe Mountain in Iran” report, a practical prep reminder, political fatigue, and a final “get out and vote but don’t just fill in blanks” message ahead of election day.
Classic Clay: accountability, local reality, and zero interest in the “positive solutions” that never show up.

Jackson was a killing field again this weekend. Double homicide plus a half-dozen wounded at a nightclub on Halloween night, stacked on top of mass shootings in Dallas, Birmingham, and elsewhere. Clay opened the show by running the body count and asking the obvious question nobody else will: can black folks not just have fun without shooting each other? He called out the culture rot, the sacred gas-station memorials, the selective outrage that stays silent when the victims look like the shooters, and the refusal to drag their own killers out of their houses. No “positive solutions,” just the reality that until the internal body count gets the same energy as the outside ones, none of the rest of it is serious.

Lisa Ross called in mid-show to address the Hinds County DA race drama after trading shots with Shaun all weekend. She defended her right to weigh in on Jackson (business there since 2003, pays taxes, eats and shops in the city) even though she lives in Madison County, pressed for accountability on the Anthony Fox prosecution, and questioned why Gwen Ago won’t own her political affiliations while Republican stickers keep appearing on her signs. Clay pushed back on the stickers as election meddling and noted that locking up a good cop tends to look a certain way politically. It stayed civil-but-pointed the whole way — agree-to-disagree with actual substance instead of the usual online yelling.

Halloween night and the usual body count rolls in from Dallas, Birmingham, and Jackson. Same cities, same crowds, same result. 6 dead and 30 injured in mass shootings because certain groups of Black people still can't gather for fun without turning it into a shootout. Media will call it gun violence. The rest of us see the pattern clear as day. Until the people in these communities start holding their own accountable instead of blaming everyone else, the next holiday just resets the scoreboard. FAFO.