Dem Scott Colom defeats Mississippi Sen. Hyde-Smith after weeklong nailbiter
Donald Trump won Mississippi by 22.9% in 2024.
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Axios reaches for "historic" where The Post Millennial stays flat.
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Different Spin. The left frames it as "Scott Colom ousts Cindy Hyde-Smith in historic Mississippi Senate flip". The right frames it as "Dem Scott Colom unseats GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi".
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Donald Trump won Mississippi by 22.9% in 2024.
With 99 percent of the vote in, Colom had received 49.2 percent of the vote to Hyde-Smith’s 48.7 percent.
Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a stunning Mississippi upset, becoming the first Democrat elected to the state's Senate delegation since 1982, AP projects....
Democrat becomes the first Black man to represent the state since Reconstruction era
Democratic challenger Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi election for the US Senate, media projected on Wednesday, making him the Southern state’s...
Mississippi has elected its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction and delivered Democrats a major upset in a rocky midterm election for the GOP.