Scott Colom Flips Mississippi

Emine Yücel, reporting for TPM:

Mississippi prosecutor Scott Colom officially defeated incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Wednesday night. Colom will be the first Democrat to represent Mississippi in the Senate since 1982 and he will also become the state’s first Black senator in nearly 150 years.

150 years is, needless to say, a long time. The crazy part about that is that Mississippi has the highest proportion of black citizens in the entire country (38 percent).

Colom, by all accounts, ran a fantastic campaign, with little to no support from the national Democratic Party because almost no one imagined Mississippi — the deepest of the deep South — might turn blue. This commercial Colom ran is one of the best I’ve ever seen. Not just best political commercials. I mean it’s one of the best 30-second spots ever made. It’s perfect. I just keep watching it over and over.

★ Thursday, 12 November 2026