- More than a week after Election Day, we finally have a winner for the U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi as Democrat Scott Colom has defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming the first first Black senator from the Deep South state since post-Civil War Reconstruction.

Dig deeper: Colom defeated Hyde-Smith by 4,669 cotes.

His win is seen as a seismic shift in the state, where white conservatives have dominated the Mississippi Statehouse and congressional delegation for nearly 150 years.