Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982
Democrat Scott Colom defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent Republican senator, to become the first Black senator in Mississippi elected since Reconstruction, in a stunning upset after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states.
“For me, this journey started with a prayer, y’all,” Colom said while addressing supporters Wednesday night in Jackson, Mississippi. “And in Mississippi, our prayers have often changed the course of history.”