Democrat Scott Colom Flips Mississippi Senate Seat In Historic Upset
- Newsrooms
- 36
- Last 3 hours
- 45 reports
- Momentum
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0 in the 3 before
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How the coverage splits
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One of the ten biggest stories of the past week (number 9 of 4000).Related
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1File photo: Scott Colom
Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested Senate race, according to projections from The Associated Press and CNN, becoming the first Democrat elected to represent the state in the Senate since 1982 and the first black senator from Mississippi
In The Daily Wire’s words.2
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.3
The story so far
36 newsroomsRising- Reports
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- Newsrooms and sources
- 36
- Last 3 hours
- 45
Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (45 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).
First with it: The Daily Wire, 3 hr 47 min before anyone else.
Reported by 36 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); The Straits Times and CNA (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from


