Scott Colom declared winner of Mississippi Senate seat
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Slowing. Likely 47 to 50 newsrooms by 8:23pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time.
1File photo: Scott Colom
Democrat Scott Colom has unseated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction. The result is a stunning flip for Democrats in a deep-red state where they last won a Senate election in 1982, and it brings the Senate Democratic Caucus to at least 5
Just the News didn’t include a summary, so this is Roll Call’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Scott Colom
Scott Winston Colom is an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who is the United States senator-elect from Mississippi. A member of the Democratic Party, Colom has served since 2016 as district attorney for the 16th Judicial District of Mississippi.4
The bigger story: Scott Colom
2 developments since Sat 7 Nov.
Scott Colom declared winner of Mississippi Senate seat
You’re here46 newsrooms. Linked by Mississippi, Scott Colom, race, nailbiter
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Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (6 in the last three hours, 48 in the three before).
First with it: Talking Points Memo, 22 min before anyone else.
Reported by 42 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Washington Times and The Hindu (the same headline); NPR and Deseret News (the same headline); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); NewsNation and The Daily Caller (the same headline); The Straits Times and CNA (the same headline).
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