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Democrat Scott Colom unseats Cindy Hyde-Smith in shocking Mississippi Senate win

THE GUARDIAN — WORLD · Adria R Walker in Mississippi ·

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Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982 Democrat 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…

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