Scott Colom Flips Mississippi Senate Seat After Weeklong Provisional Ballot Review
Colom won after provisional ballots were reviewed, giving Democrats their eighth Senate pickup and ending Mississippi’s 40-year drought without a Democratic senator.
- On Wednesday, Nov. 11, Democrat Scott Colom, a district attorney, defeated Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming Mississippi's first Black United States senator since Reconstruction and giving Democrats at least 55 Senate seats.
- Hyde-Smith blocked Colom's 2022 nomination to a federal judgeship using the blue slip privilege, a political maneuver that backfired and prompted the district attorney to challenge her for the Senate seat instead.
- Focusing on pocketbook issues, Colom flipped several Republican counties and gained momentum with viral ads that mocked Hyde-Smith’s suggestion to "pick another protein."
- Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and DSCC Chair Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called the victory historic, vowing to partner with Colom "to fight for Mississippians' health care, costs, and future."
- Nearly 99 percent of ballots have been processed, according to the Associated Press, and Colom is set to be sworn in early next year, marking a significant shift in the Deep South’s political landscape.
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