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Mississippi elects Scott Colom, its first Black senator since Reconstruction

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Scott Colom, a Democratic district attorney, won Mississippi's U.S. Senate seat after a prolonged ballot count, unseating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. Mississippi had not elected a Democratic senator since 1982, and had not sent a Black senator to Washington since 1874.

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