Dem Scott Colom defeats Mississippi Sen. Hyde-Smith after weeklong nailbiter

Source: New York Post

In a stunning upset, Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the GOP stronghold of Mississippi –  giving Democrats an 11-seat majority in the US Senate. Colom’s historic victory, which comes after more than a week of vote counting, will give Mississippi its first black senator since the Reconstruction era, when former slave Bruce Blance was elected in 1874.