# CNN projects Democrat Scott Colom to win Mississippi Senate race

https://mins.news/en/video/139725

- CNN, 2026-11-11 22:28 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCQKppsqvWQ

> CNN’s Decision Desk projects that Scott Colom will defeat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming the first Democrat elected to the Senate by voters in deep-red Mississippi in more than four decades. At 43, Colom will also be the first Black person elected to statewide office there since the Reconstruction era.

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