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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.
Democrat Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s race for U.S. Senate, making Colom the state’s first Black senator elected since Reconstruction and its first Democratic senator in nearly 45 years. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.
Democrat Scott Colom will win the election for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, The Associated Press projects.
Mississippi is home to a large Black American population but no Black person has held a Senate seat since the 1800s.
Democrat Scott Colom has won Mississippi’s Senate race, becoming the state’s first Black senator since 1874.
The result was also a historic victory for African Americans in a former slave state that was a hotbed of repression during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Because of the Black population and its alignment with Democrats, Mississippi's general elections have been closer for years than its immediate Southern neighbours.
Mr. Colom, a prosecutor, will be the first Black senator elected from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.
In a state Trump won two years ago by 22 points, Colom's victory extends a string of Democratic wins in the Senate.
