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Midterm elections in the USA | Mississippi goes to the Democrats
For the first time in 145 years, a black senator from Mississippi will enter the US Senate. Colom was able to mobilize many non-voters.
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43-year-old Scott Colom won the election in Mississippi. Photo: dpa/AP/Ellen Schmidt Washington. The US Democrat Scott Colom has won the Senate election in the southern state of Mississippi. According to consistent information from CNN, CBS and NBC, he managed to prevail against Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in the congressional election on Tuesday last week. Colom is the first black senator from Mississippi since the 1880s.
According to CNN, Colom came to 49.2 percent after 99 percent of the votes were counted; Hyde-Smith achieved 48.7 percent. In a celebratory victory speech on Wednesday evening (local time) in Jackson, Colom honored Mississippi's long tradition of black activism. “Our prayers have changed the course of history,” Colom shouted to his followers. »God did not want us to win an easy victory. He wanted us to do it the Mississippi way.”
Hyde-Smith acknowledged defeat. "Even if this is not the result we worked for or hoped for, I recognize the decision of the voters of Mississippi," said the 67-year-old. "I would like to congratulate Scott Colom and wish him all the best as he now has an enormous responsibility to represent our great state."
“Scott Colom is the only one who could have done it. "I knew it from the moment I met him for the first time," said former Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer on the online service X. "Blue Mississippi is here," he added.
Colom's victory in the Deep South is a painful slap in the face for Republican President Donald Trump. With his victory, the Democrats have 55 of the 100 seats in the US Senate; The Republicans have so far accounted for 44. The result in the state of Alaska is still pending; counting is still ongoing there. Overall, as things stand, the Democrats managed to take eight Senate seats from the Republicans in the midterms. AFP/nd
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