Democrat Scott Colom Wins Mississippi Senate Seat Defeating Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith
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Scott Colom: 2 developments since Sat 7 Nov.
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Democrats padded their US Senate majority with a surprise win by Scott Colom, a district attorney who ousted Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in a reliably Republican state that President Donald Trump won by more than 22 percentage points in 2024.
Breitbart didn’t include a summary, so this is Bloomberg’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.
Mississippi Democrat flips U.S. Senate seat in stunning upset
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The story so far
39 newsroomsCooling- Reports
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Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (9 in the last three hours, 44 in the three before).
First with it: The Daily Wire, 3 hr 47 min before anyone else.
Reported by 39 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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