Mississippi Goes Blue: Democrat Scott Colom Ousts "100% MAGA" Hyde-Smith

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Mississippi Goes Blue: Democrat Scott Colom Ousts "100% MAGA" Hyde-Smith Democrat Scott Colom has unseated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, NBC News, CNN and the…

Democrat Scott Colom has unseated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, NBC News, CNN and the Associated Press projected Wednesday. President Trump carried the state by 23 points in 2024, and the win gives Democrats at least 55 Senate seats next year.

Hyde-Smith called Colom late Wednesday afternoon to concede, two sources close to his campaign told CNBC.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer posted on X: "Blue Mississippi is here."

Colom is the first Democrat Mississippi has elected to the Senate since 1982, a few weeks before he was born, and he will be the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction. He is the eighth Democrat to flip a Republican-held Senate seat this year, and no Democrat in the next Senate will represent a redder state.

Election night ended with Colom ahead by 43 votes with more than 95% counted, as we noted the next morning. Affidavit ballots, cast provisionally when a voter's eligibility is in question, then broke his way, as did late returns from Hinds County, home to Jackson, where he took about 80% of the vote. With an estimated 99% counted on Tuesday, he led 49.18% to 48.72%, with independent Ty Pinkins at 2.1%, according to the AP's count as reported by CNBC.

By Wednesday afternoon the AP had Colom ahead by 4,585 votes. His campaign put the margin at 5,568 once official results from 24 counties that had certified were added, and said shortly before the call: "The data is clear: Scott Colom will be the next U.S. Senator for Mississippi and his victory is now a guarantee," the Mississippi Free Press reported.

In a Nov. 6 Facebook statement, Hyde-Smith wrote, "We are not backing down," adding, "This election is not over," and promised that her team would "see this through to the very end!" according to the Free Press. Colom had lawyered up the day after the election ("We got the lawyers who are ready to make sure the law's followed," he said), and Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias said his firm was leading the legal effort on…

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