Colom's victory makes him the first black person from Mississippi to be elected to the US Senate in more than 140 years.
BBC News – World In our news wrap Wednesday, Democrat Scott Colom has defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi a group that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was admonished by an Army sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and peace talks between Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. ended with an agreement to exchange prisoners, but no breakthrough on ending the war.
BBC News – World In our news wrap Wednesday, Democrat Scott Colom has defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi a group that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was admonished by an Army sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and peace talks between Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. ended with an agreement to exchange prisoners, but no breakthrough on ending the war.
Colom beat Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith after race was called eight days after midterm election day Democrat Scott Colom wins race for US Senate in Mississippi How Colom won deep-red Mississippi with little help from Democrats Sign up for the US Breaking News email Some Democrats, out of the 11 who missed the key procedural vote on Tuesday to impeach Pete Hegseth, blamed a traffic jam in Washington DC for their inabi…
Democrat Scott Colom will win the election for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, The Associated Press projects.
Mississippi hadn't elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in more than 40 years.
The southern US state of Mississippi has elected its first Black senator in more than 140 years. Democrat Scott Colom has won the seat in a historic upset, according to projections.
Democrat chatted up people at hair salons, colleges and at Trump rallies to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction The ad is simple, less than half a minute long, but many say it was the moment the nation took notice of Mississippi ’s US Senate race. In it, the incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a cattle farmer, answers a reporter’s question about the rising price of beef : “You kn…
Colom defeated incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Mississippi since 1982.
Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that hasn’t 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. Colom opened up a narrow lead over Hyde-Sm…
The historic victory flips an eighth US Senate seat for Democrats after last week's pivotal midterm election.
NPR – Politics Democrat Scott Colom has won election to the U.S. Senate in Mississippi, according to a race call by the Associated Press, defeating Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Democrat Scott Colom defeated GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race, delivering Democrats an eighth flipped Senate seat after the dramatic race had been up in the air for days.
Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
NYTimes – US Scott Colom, a Democrat and prosecutor, is the first Black senator elected from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.
Sky News – Front Page Democrat Scott Colom has won the Mississippi Senate race, NBC has projected.
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