Mississippi elects Democrat Scott Colom as state's first Black US senator since Reconstruction
The Associated Press reports that Democrat Scott Colom, a 43-year-old prosecutor, defeated Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith after days of counting absentee and affidavit ballots, making him Mississippi's first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. The AP calls the narrow victory a seismic shift and part of a decisive midterm rebuke of President Trump, whose party lost several Republican-controlled states.
