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MapTrump Praises Scott Colom After Mississippi Senate Win in White House Interview
“We didn't have hundreds of million dollars to come in to spend — we did it going door to door, festival to festival, earning support,”
“Colom appeared to a ride a national wave of resentment against Republicans.”
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Scott Colom defeated Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s Senate race. He becomes Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.
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Trump praises Colom
President Donald Trump told Stephen A. Smith in a White House interview that he “give[s] him credit” for Scott Colom’s Mississippi Senate campaign.
Trump said he had a rally in Corinth where “we had lines that went 10 miles long,” and he described Colom as campaigning “on that line, telling everybody in the line what a good job he did.”
About a thousand people gathered on the Woodworth Chapel Lawn at Tougaloo College in Jackson to celebrate Colom’s win as Mississippi’s senator-elect.
Rev Maxine Bolden told the crowd that “it meant everything” to be there, and she said “God came back and gave us all the marvels.”
Victory, margins, and history
Colom won the US Senate race in Mississippi with 49.2% of the vote, while Cindy Hyde-Smith received 48.7%, and the result meant Democrats would hold 55 seats in the 100-member Senate. Fewer than five thousand votes out of nearly a million counted separated Colom and Hyde-Smith, and Colom said, “They did not believe a moment like this was possible, but I kept the faith.”
Colom won by approximately 5,000 votes, with a small fraction of the vote still left to be counted. Colom has been the district attorney for the state's 16th judicial district since 2016, including his hometown of Columbus, Mississippi, in Lowndes County.
What comes next
Roger Wicker, Mississippi’s senior U.S. senator, wrote, “I look forward to working together for the good of Mississippi and the United States.”
Wicker expressed gratitude to Hyde-Smith in a statement that began, “Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith: On behalf of all Mississippians, I say thank you.”
Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith conceded the Mississippi race to Colom on Wednesday, and it described the 2026 Senate fight as nearing a conclusion with only Alaska still outstanding.
If Democrats win in Alaska, they would hold 56 votes, including independents who caucus with Democrats: Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine.