“A rich message, but a poor campaign”: How Scott Colom beat the odds in Mississippi
Noel King's Today, Explained interview with Rep. Bennie Thompson, published on Vox, takes up Democrat Scott Colom's Mississippi Senate win, which was called November 11 and will make him the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction. Thompson, who has represented the state's Second District since 1993, says growing up there taught you that you were a second-class citizen.
