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Posted on 11/11/2026 3:42:21 PM PST by Coronal
WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Democrat Scott Colom won a stunning upset in Mississippi's US Senate race on Wednesday after days of counting, US media projected, defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith to become the Southern state's first Black senator since the Reconstruction era that followed the US Civil War.
It was one of the final outstanding races to be called since Tuesday's elections, in which Democrats overwhelmed Republicans to win control of both chambers of the US Congress. Mississippi officials took days to count ballots in a race that was so tight that Colom at times led by only a few dozen votes. Colom, a 43-year-old district attorney, became the first Democrat to win a Mississippi Senate seat since John Stennis in 1982.
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It just keeps getting worse 😢
I have never seen such political malpractice. What is wrong with the GOP?
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
VictoryGal wrote: “I have never seen such political malpractice. What is wrong with the GOP?”
Don’t blame the GOP, blame the voters
I watched this guy last night I have to say he sounded like an inarticulate dope.
Said Trump was engaging in a “terror campaign”
Bingo!
Hyde-Smith was a terrible candidate. She barely campaigned for the job, and when the few times she did, she stuck her foot in her mouth.
Alaska isn’t looking any better.
“VictoryGal wrote: “I have never seen such political malpractice. What is wrong with the GOP?”
Don’t blame the GOP, blame the voters”
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There’s only one man controlling and directing the GOP now, and the buck stops with him.
It’s the job of the GOP to earn votes.
They failed.
Mississippi has had conservative leadership for many decades. 60% voted for our President.
Something is deeply wrong with the GOP if MS voters are swinging left by 10 full points.
Yes. I blame the GOP.
Was she hand picked by Trump?
Assuming Alaska stays red, which is far from certain, this brings the Democrat majority to 55. That means the Republicans would have to flip at least 5 of the following 6 states and win the presidency in order to regain a Republican majority in the Senate.
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Nevada
Arizona
New Hampshire
Georgia
A tough hill to climb for sure. There are other blue states having Senate elections in 2028 but the odds of them flipping are approximately zero unless the political landscape changes drastically by 2028. I’m talking about states like California, Washington, Oregon, New York, etc.
Regarding the stupidity of our voters:
A blue state democrat could commit murder live on tv and be reelected.
Not much of an exaggeration.
Strange how whenever it’s close and long drawn-out the Dem always wins. What a coincidence….
He endorsed her.
He endorsed her.
Some interesting analysis regarding the huge mid-term loss has started circulating over the last couple of days. It is being suggested that what hurt Republicans the most was, ironically enough, their huge and largely successful get out the vote campaign.
What’s being suggested is that a significant percentage of these low propensity Republican voters ended up voting for the Democrats and that this was particularly true among early voters, with the effect being less significant for election day voters. This kind of makes sense and if true, it’s disturbing, to say the least.
If true, Republicans in the future will need to figure out a way to screen out such Republicans. My guess is that the majority of Republicans who fell into this category are relatively new to the party and joined after 2020.
A time traveler from the past arriving in 2026 would think Texas and Mississippi going Left is unbelievable. Get me outta here.
She did win her reelection after being appointed...
But I think she just got lazy - probably didn’t think she needed to bother until it was too late.
I mentioned before, but the guy who beat her? He was nominated to a district court seat like 4-5 years ago. She “blue-slipped him”. Nobody else had a problem with the nomination - apparently, prior to being nominated, he beat a sitting Republican in a local attorney job and raised the conviction rate from like 80% to 95%.
She probably made her own bed.
“It just keeps getting worse 😢
I have never seen such political malpractice. What is wrong with the GOP?”
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Crappy candidates.
“Independent Dan J. Sullivan has 4,027 votes, which, if combined with Sen. Sullivan’s, equals 118,703, meaning Peltola has a little over a 200-vote lead over both Sullivans together, which may have implications in any post-election litigation.” 11/11/26. Alaska News
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