France 24 reported Thursday that Democrat Scott Colom won Mississippi’s Senate race on Wednesday, calling the result a major break in a state where Republicans have usually held the advantage.
The outlet placed the result among Democratic gains elsewhere in the midterms and described the contest as close. It said no Black person had won a Senate race in Mississippi since 1874. The state’s last Democratic Senate victory came in 1982, France 24 reported.
EconoTimes had previously reported that the race remained uncalled, with Colom leading Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by 2,574 votes in an earlier update on the contest. That margin was reported at the time of the earlier update.
