Scott Colom has won the U.S. Senate election in Mississippi, defeating Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, CNN projects.
He becomes the first Black person elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era.
It's so interesting to see these conversations about Mississippi. Most times y'all speaking down on us. Now I see so many posts about "invest in Mississippi" when folks on the ground have been screaming from the rooftops about investment for years.
Mississippians only had 12 hours to make it happen. W/o any state laws for voting leave, w/o the infrastructure to facilitate the whole state trying to vote in one day, & gobs of other voter suppression. They’ve been neck & neck the whole time. 🥹 pride can’t even describe this.