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How Scott Colom flipped Mississippi's Senate seat

Season 2026 Episode 231 | 3m 22s

In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom won his longshot bid to oust incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. Colom’s victory is a stunning reversal in the deeply conservative state that hasn’t been represented by a Black senator since the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. Liz Landers reports.

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