An Alaska judge rejected a request by Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign for a list of absentee voters whose ballots have been rejected as the vote counting continues.
\n\nPresident Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance attend a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on National Veterans Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday. Mark Schiefelbein / AP
\n\nScott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, NBC News projects, capping a string of Democratic victories by flipping the reddest seat yet in this year’s midterms.
\n\nMississippi last elected a Democrat to the Senate 44 years ago, just a few weeks before Colom was born in 1982. Colom, a district attorney, will become Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
\n\nThe historic win comes after days of uncertainty in the race, with Colom holding a razor-thin lead over Hyde-Smith as more votes continued to be counted. Colom remained confident throughout the vote counting that he would prevail.
\n\nIn the next Congress, no Democratic senator will represent a redder state than Colom. Trump carried Mississippi by 23 percentage points in 2024. Colom’s victory also underscores the Trump administration’s broad…
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