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How did a Democrat take a Mississippi Senate seat?
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Scott Colom of Columbus is set to become Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction. Democrats had not won a Senate race in Mississippi since nineteen eighty-two, a state Trump carried easily.
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The Associated Press called it for Colom by a narrow 4669 votes. It took over a week: more than a hundred thousand mail-in ballots, and thousands of provisional ones, had to be checked.
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Colom campaigned in all 82 counties and argued Hyde-Smith took voters for granted. He backed the Second Amendment and praised Trump for ending taxes on tips. In a WLOX-TV interview she said voters had 'so many other proteins to choose from' on beef, and his campaign turned it into a viral ad.
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Their rivalry ran deep. After the vote, he pressed her: 'Ultimately, at some point, the senator needs to speak out. Where is Cindy Hyde-Smith?'
“Ultimately, at some point, the senator needs to speak out. Where is Cindy Hyde-Smith?”
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- POLITICOMississippi elects Democrat Scott Colom to Senate in massive upset
- The New York TimesIn Major Upset, Scott Colom, a Democrat, Wins Mississippi Senate Seat
- AxiosScott Colom ousts Cindy Hyde-Smith in historic Mississippi Senate flip