Democrat Scott Colom wins closely watched US Senate race in Mississippi

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Democrata Scott Colom vence corrida de Senado dos EUA de grande atenção no Mississippi | Eleições de Meio de Mandato dos EUA 2026 Notícias | Al Jazeera Pular links Pular para o Conteúdo reproduzir ao vivo Inscrever-se Mostrar menu de navegação Menu de navegação.

Colom, a prosecutor, will become the state’s first Black senator in more than 140 years. On Wednesday, he garnered a narrow victory over incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in one of the US midterm’s biggest upsets.

The win builds on Democrats’ success after the party delivered an electoral drubbing to the rival Republicans in the November 3 midterm elections.

The left-leaning party flipped at least eight US Senate seats that are currently held by Republicans. A US Senate race in Alaska remains undecided.

For more than a week, the Mississippi contest was too close to call as election officials worked to count more than 100,000 mail-in ballots. Thousands of other residents, who could not confirm their registration at voting sites, cast provisional ballots that required confirmation of their eligibility.

Colom e Hyde‑Smith adotaram abordagens marcadamente diferentes enquanto os votos restantes eram contados.

Hyde‑Smith não foi vista publicamente até retornar a Washington nesta semana para a reconvenção do Senado.

Through a statement, however, Hyde-Smith and her team had expressed confidence that she would win after “every legally cast vote is fully and accurately counted”.

Colom, by contrast, has maintained a more public profile since the November 3 midterms. After the election, Colom held a series of events where he castigated his opponent.

The US Senate race also was not the first time the two had crossed political paths.

Hyde‑Smith, citando preocupações sobre a posição de Colom em relação a atletas transgêneros, havia bloqueado anteriormente sua nomeação para juiz federal em 2023, após ser indicado pelo ex‑presidente dos EUA Joe Biden.

The position had required Senate approval.

A vitória de Colom reverte as expectativas políticas para o Mississippi, um estado que o presidente dos EUA Donald Trump venceu por pouco mais de 22 pontos na eleição presidencial de 2024.

O último democrata a vencer uma corrida pelo Senado dos EUA no Mississippi foi em 1982, quando John Stennis conquistou a vitória sobre o candidato republicano Haley Barbour, que mais tarde se tornou governador do estado.

Colom, who has been a proponent of raising the minimum wage, increasing protections for rural hospitals and ending the US war in Iran, will be sworn in next January.

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