Scott Colom Wins Stunning Victory, Becomes Mississippi’s First Black Senator Since Reconstruction
Democracy Now! reports that Democrat Scott Colom has narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi's first African American senator since Reconstruction, in a state President Trump won by nearly 23 points in 2024, bringing the incoming Senate Democratic caucus to 55. Colom, whose victory came three years after Hyde-Smith blocked his federal judgeship nomination, told a victory speech at Tougaloo College near where Medgar Evers was murdered that his campaign began with a prayer, recalling Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer as figures whose faith in Mississippi made a moment like his possible.
