# LIVE: Scott Colom speaks after winning Mississippi Senate race

https://mins.news/en/video/139840

- The Associated Press, 2026-11-12 00:21 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hsKADioqGI

> Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested U.S. Senate race. He will be the state’s first Black senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.

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