Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate election
By: Dan Mangan (CNBC)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Democratic nominee Scott Colom won the Mississippi Senate election over Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Colom, a local district attorney, will be the first Black senator from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era.
His projected victory — which was not considered likely by national analysts before Election Day — is the latest in a series of stunning wins by Democrats this midterm cycle.
Two sources close to Colom's campaign said Hyde-Smith called him late Wednesday afternoon to concede.
"While this is not the outcome we worked for, or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters," Hyde-Smith said in a video posted on X.
"I want to congratulate Scott Colom and wish him well as he takes on the tremendous responsibility of representing our great state," Hyde-Smith said.
Democrats now will have a majority of at least 55 seats in the Senate, having flipped at least eight seats from Republicans.
Alaska is the only remaining Senate election to be called. In that state, Democratic nominee Mary Peltola, a former House member, has a narrow lead over Sen. Dan Sullivan, the Republican incumbent.
"Blue Mississippi is here," Soenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a post on X.
"Scott Colom is the only person who could've gotten this done. I knew it from the moment I met him," Schumer wrote.
In addition to the Senate, Democrats have won more than enough seats to take control of the House of Representatives when the next Congress begins in January.
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so historic and so exciting. How wonderful for America.
I knew that overall the Democrats would do much better than the Republicans in this election.
But I was wrong as to my guess as to how large the victory would be.
And in Mississippi?
These results are amazing!
We're not done. Alaska is next!
Colom is the first Black man ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi. The only other Black man who was a Senator from Mississippi was appointed by the state legislature during Reconstruction. Not elected.
Think about Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964. I remember those days. This is really an overwhelmingly emotional moment.
I remember those days as well! I was involved in the Civil Rights movement that year. I was attending University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It seems like so long ago. I don't remember the specific year, it was probably 1964: Every evening there was a march down Franklin Street, we marched and sang Civil Rights songs. At the end of the march some of the marchers chose to sit in at a local segregated establishment.
The town of Chapel Hill was "mixed"-- some of the shops on the main street had "Whites Only" signs on their doors-- but others were voluntarily integrated!
The times they are a- changing.
Yup!