PoliticsDemocrat Scott Colom unseats Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi Senate upset

After more than a week of counting, Democrat Scott Colom narrowly defeated incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. He becomes Mississippi’s first Democrat elected to the Senate since 1982 and its first Black senator since 1875. The result came amid a national wave of anger at Donald Trump’s administration.

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