Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate race
An NPR article reports that Democrat Scott Colom, a district attorney who ran on cost of living, narrowly defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith after more than a week of counting absentee and provisional ballots, making him Mississippi's first Democratic senator in over 40 years and its first Black senator since Reconstruction. Colom, whose campaign mocked Hyde-Smith's advice that shoppers faced with high beef prices pick "another protein," told NPR the Democratic Party had spent almost nothing in a Mississippi he called "a betrayed cause."
