A BLACK SENATOR ELECTED IN MISSISSIPPI AFTER 150 YEARS

Democrat Scott Colom, 43, won the Mississippi Senate seat, defeating incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith. He becomes the first African American elected to that office in the state since 1874, during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. This historic victory comes after several days of vote counting and represents another setback for Donald Trump's Republicans. Ironically, Cindy Hyde-Smith had previously blocked his nomination as a federal judge in 2022, under the presidency of Joe Biden.