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

By Pamela Geller - on November 12, 2026

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 spending and organizing in a state Trump carried by 23 points in 2024. Hyde-Smith faced warning signs in the campaign’s closing months, when Colom raised twice as much as the GOP senator despite her overall cash advantage. She was also outspent on TV advertising, with a flood of ads from left-leaning PACs and super PACs pushing support for Colom and attacking the senator for her vote not to release files related to the convicted human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein (Axios).

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