# Scott Colom’s Mississippi Senate win was 145 years in the making

https://mins.news/en/video/140064

- ABC News, 2026-11-12 04:15 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hKK0YCajG0

> Scott Colom’s election as Mississippi senator-elect marks the first time since 1982 that a Democrat has won a Senate seat in the state. He is also Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction.

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