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To win a Senate seat in a highly polarized, deeply Republican state, Scott Colom needed a perfect storm. He got it.
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At Tougaloo College, supporters danced and wept over Scott Colom’s victory. He will be Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since the Reconstruction era.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said he wouldn’t run for president to focus on his leadership challenge to Senator Chuck Schumer, who remained confident he would prevail.
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