In a year of Democratic midterm-election upsets, Scott Colom is projected to have pulled off the biggest one.
CNN projects that Colom has won the US Senate seat in Mississippi as a black Democrat.
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CNN’s Jake Tapper announced the call of the Senate race:
We have a major CNN projection. CNN is now projecting the Mississippi Senate race, and CNN is projecting that Democratic candidate Scott Colom will win that race. Democrats now gaining their 55th US Senate seat with a Scott Colom victory over Republican incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Colom’s vote count lead grew after a key county this afternoon just finished its vote.
It is worth taking a moment to recognize that this win for Colom is not only a major upset, not only a big victory for him personally, not only a big victory for the Mississippi Democratic Party and the National Democratic Party, this is a remarkable moment in American history.
Scott Colom will become the very first Black man elected as a senator in Mississippi since the Reconstruction Era more than 140 years ago.
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On election night, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith celebrated blocking Colom from being a federal judge and said, “I blocked Scott Colom from being a federal judge, and you blocked him from being a US senator.”
Yet, another wrong prediction from MAGA.