Democrat Scott Colom flips Mississippi Senate seat, becomes state's first Black senator since Reconstruction
Le Monde and the Associated Press report that Democrat Scott Colom, a 43-year-old prosecutor, defeated Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's Senate race after days of counting absentee and affidavit ballots, becoming the state's first Black US senator since Reconstruction. They judge the narrow win a seismic shift and part of a midterm rebuke of Donald Trump, whose party suffered defeats in several Republican-held states. Colom said he could represent all of Mississippi and that rural, suburban, and urban America need a party that delivers.
