Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, flipping a Republican Senate seat in Mississippi.
With 99% of the expected vote reported, Colom leads 49.2% to 48.7%, a margin of roughly 4,700 votes, and the win marks the eighth Democratic Senate pickup while the Alaska race remains undecided.
Colom, a district attorney for four Mississippi-Alabama border counties and a former federal judge nominee, will become Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction after building momentum with appearances by former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris and a viral video mocking Hyde-Smith’s protein choices.
Hyde-Smith, seeking a second term, had previously blocked Colom’s 2023 federal judge nomination, but Colom said he forgave her, and both campaigns prepared for potential litigation over thousands of provisional ballots.
Source: 6abc.com
