Colom wins Senate seat

Mississippi Today Democrat Scott Colom has won a hard-fought U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, breaking Republicans’ dominance of statewide offices, ousting one of the state’s sitting senators for the first time since the 1940s and becoming the state’s first Black senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction. Colom, a district attorney in north Mississippi, defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and independent Ty Pinkins. Colom on Wednesday secured a come-from-behind triumph that has stunned pollsters, pundits and forecasters across the nation. Hyde-Smith has held the Senate seat since 2018. Mississippi has elected only Republican senators for the last 40 years. Colom supporters gathered Wednesday night for a victory celebration at Tougaloo College, a historically Black campus that was a safe haven for voting-rights activists during the Civil Rights Movement.

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