# Mississippi sends first Black senator to Washington in more than 150 years

https://mins.news/en/video/141086

- DW News, 2026-11-12 17:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no2Eefpa23U

> After a lengthy ballot count, Mississippi’s closely fought US Senate race was decided: Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. He is the state’s first Black senator since the Reconstruction era after the Civil War. The report considers whether this signals a Democratic “Blue Wave” and whether the party’s future could lie in the Deep South.

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