Trump Won Mississippi by 23 Points — Democrat Scott Colom Just Defeated His Endorsed Senator

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) wrote Wednesday: “Congratulations to Senator-elect Scott Colom on his historic victory. I am proud of all he has accomplished and look forward to working alongside him to fight for the people of Mississippi.” 

Trump-endorsed Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) was the incumbent.

The Associated Press called the race at about 6 p.m. EST: “Democrat Scott Colom wins election to U.S. Senate from Mississippi.”

Senate Democrats’ campaign arm said Colom, a district attorney, “becomes the first Democrat to win a Mississippi Senate seat in over four decades.” Colom will also become Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.

Colom’s lead had grown to 4,404 votes earlier in the day, according to Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias.

Reporters at The Wall Street Journal tied the result to a February interview in which Hyde-Smith, asked about high beef prices, said: “You have so many proteins to choose from.” Colom featured the interview in a campaign ad.

They’re going to study this ad for centuries https://t.co/nddNauOr7U

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Gil Carter, a Mississippi State faculty member who studies political communication, told the paper: “There really couldn’t have been a worse way to respond.”

Hyde-Smith’s campaign had said last week that it would not yield. “We are not backing down,” it said Friday, adding: “We will see this through to the very end.”

Her lawyers had sent all 82 counties a letter demanding that affidavit ballots be separated and preserved, writing that she “is entitled to their preservation in an unaltered and identifiable state.”

Colom’s campaign answered that “there is no legal authority for that demand.” Colom told reporters Friday: “It’s very clear the direction of this.”

[NOTE: Hyde-Smith conceded just before 7pm Wednesday.]