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How Scott Colom flipped Mississippi's Senate seat
Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, delivering a rare Democratic Senate victory in the deeply conservative state. His win marks its first Black senator since Reconstruction, following the Civil War more than a century ago.
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