At 18:55 CET, Scott Colom led Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race by 65 votes, 48.9 to 48.9 percent with 95.7 percent of the expected vote counted, according to NBC News, based on AP data. No winner has been called.
Scott Colom, a Democratic district attorney, ran against Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. A win would make Colom the first Black senator from Mississippi since Blanche K. Bruce, who left office in 1881, and the first Democrat from the state to win a Senate election since John C. Stennis in 1982. There is no runoff in this race: the candidate with the most votes takes the seat. Independent Ty Pinkins has 19,938 votes, many times the gap between the two. The outcome now depends on ballots still to be counted, above all affidav...
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