# AP projects Democrat Colom to become Mississippi’s first Black senator in over 100 years

https://mins.news/en/video/139807

- ABC News, 2026-11-11 23:47 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm_QUakehFQ

> The Associated Press projects that Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom will win Mississippi’s U.S. Senate election, flipping a Republican-held seat to the Democrats in the deeply Republican state.

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