Democrat Scott Colom unseats Cindy Hyde-Smith in shocking Mississippi Senate win
The Guardian reports that Democrat Scott Colom narrowly unseated incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi after more than a week of vote counting, making him the first Black senator elected in the state since 1875 and the first Democrat sent to the Senate there since 1982. It calls the win one of the biggest upsets of the midterms, notes Hyde-Smith had blocked Colom's federal judgeship, and recounts his campaign's taco truck and viral ad around her beef-cost remarks, to which he replied, "Bless her heart."
