Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate race in major victory for Democrats
MS NOW reports that Democrat Scott Colom, a 43-year-old prosecutor, defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's Senate race, the eighth seat Democrats flipped in the 2026 midterms to give them 55 seats. Colom becomes Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction and the state's first Democratic senator since 1982, winning by 4,669 votes after Hyde-Smith conceded.
