U.S.
Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate race, breaking the GOP’s grip on the state
Democrat Scott Colom, a prosecutor, defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot count, according to race calls by the Associated Press and CNN, flipping an eighth Senate seat for Democrats in the 2026 midterms. Colom becomes the first Black senator elected from Mississippi since Reconstruction, and Newsweek reports he is the state's first Democratic Senate winner since 1982.