Even Mississippi: Democrats Take Senate Seat as the Count Drags On

Another late counting race goes to ….. the Democrats.

Even Mississippi.

Yes: Mississippi.

Democrat Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. Colom is the first Democrat elected to the state’s Senate delegation since 1982.

With this call, Democrats have 55 seats, Republicans have 44 (NBC).

The last one remaining is Alaska—and that doesn’t look good for the GOP. Axios: Colom’s victory marks another extraordinary breakthrough for Democrats in the Deep South, extending the historic blue wave that handed the party control of both chambers of Congress. Colom also becomes Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction. Hiram Rhodes Revels became the nation’s first Black senator in 1870. Mississippi’s last Black senator, Blanche K. Bruce, served until 1881…. Colom’s victory followed a late surge of Democratic