Scott Colom addresses the crowd during the 23rd annual Leflore County Democratic Executive Committee's Beans and Greens Dinner at the Andrew McQueen Jr. Civic Center on Oct. 8. The Associated Press declared Colom the winner over incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Democrat Scott Colom has won a hard-fought U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, breaking Republicans’ dominance of statewide offices, ousting one of the state’s sitting senators for the first time since the 1940s and becoming the state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction.
