How Scott Colom defied the odds to go from district attorney to Mississippi's Democratic US Senator
An NPR Gulf States Newsroom article reports that Scott Colom, district attorney since 2016, narrowly defeated Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by under five thousand votes, becoming Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction and its first Democratic senator since 1982. Colom credits door-to-door canvassing over big money and says his bipartisan message, forged working in a Republican-majority area, resonated statewide.
