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MapScott Colom Says He Confidently Wins Mississippi Senate Race as Democrats Take Senate Control
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Scott Colom expressed confidence he will win Mississippi Senate race. Mississippi contest was razor-thin, separated by 43 votes with 96% counted.
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Midterms flip Congress
Democratic candidate Scott Colom said he was "very happy" with where the Mississippi Senate race stood and told a news conference, "I'm very confident about where we are and I'm very confident that we're going to win." CBS News projections said Democrats would take control of the Senate in January, and the network said Democrats had secured enough wins to control at least 54 seats in the upper chamber. The blue wave rippled from coastal North Carolina to the Appalachian Mountains on Tuesday, with Democrats flipping at least two House seats while leading in several other races CNN had yet to project.
At 10:00 ET (15:00 GMT) only 43 votes separated Colom and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith for the seat, with 96% of the vote counted, according to AP. Colom told voters who cast affidavit ballots, also known as provisional ballots, would have until 10 November to resolve any issues.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed Wednesday that "whenever Trump defies the will of the American people or the law, we will launch investigations, take him to court, and entangle him in legislative razor wire."
Schumer said, "Americans are calling for accountability, not accommodation," and he added that the days of "Trump's supplicant Senate" were over.
Vice President JD Vance pinned the GOP’s massive midterm losses on the Iran war that President Donald Trump started, while Trump said he didn’t see Republican losses as a hit on him.
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El País said Vance wrote, "The reason we lost was the war. The president himself said so last night," as it described the blame for the GOP defeat.
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