Scott Colom's twin brother, Andrew, helped Mississippi Senator-elect's campaign; wife, Nadia, expresses pride after midterms win

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Scott Colom defeated Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith to become the first black US Senator from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction.

Scott Colom's twin brother, Andrew, had a significant role in the Senator-elect's campaign. This has come to light anew after Colom defeated Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith to become the first black US Senator from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction.

The vote counting process took a while after the US midterm elections on November 3, but now The Associated Press has reported Colom's win. His wife, Nadia, who has been supportive throughout the campaign, also took the stage to express pride in her husband's achievement.

Andrew Colom is currently a developer based out of Detroit. He's the brains behind some of Colom's viral campaign ads, including Sinator, where the twins fend off a Hyde-Smith facsimile. The ad was a parody of the movie Sinners.

He's also behind the ‘pick another protein’ ad, but Andrew has called Detroit home for the last 12 years.

“I have deep, passionate love for Detroit. And I feel like there's a really, really profound connection between Detroit and Mississippi. Detroiters always show love for Mississippi. As a Mississippian, a lot of times you go places ... you tell people you're from Mississippi, they make fun of you. But Detroit, when you tell people you're from Mississippi, they show you more love,” he told Detroit Free Press.

Andrew has been a longtime developer in Detroit, as per the report, and also served as writer and executive producer of the short film, One Sweet Night. The movie is about Ossian Sweet, an African-American Detroit physician whose murder trial had become a landmark moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the US. Andrew's movie was about Ossian and his family defending their home from a group of angry white people upset that he had moved into a Detroit neighborhood in the 1920s.

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