Feed excerpt — reported by The Guardian
Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982Democrat Scott Colom pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the midterm elections when he defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent Republican senator, to become the first Black senator in Mississippi elected since 1875, after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states.Colom opened up a narrow lead over Hyde-Smith late on election night. His lead widened as election officials counted provisional ballots. Hyde-Smith was not able to close the gap. Continue reading…
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