Scott Colom wins U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi
Verified: 44 outlets in 23 countries have reported this story since Nov 11, 4 of them from the United States.
(Reuters) – Democrat Scott Colom won a stunning upset in Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race on Wednesday after days of counting, U.S. media projected, defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith to become the Southern state’s first Black since the Reconstruction era that followed the U.S. Civil War. It was one of the final outstanding races to be…
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4 outlets from the United States, where the story is: CBS News, NPR News, The New York Times and 1 more · how we count
- Nov 11, 8:57 AM UTCFirst reportDemocrat Scott Colom's lead grows in Mississippi Senate race with certification days awayyahoo.com ↗
- Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 11, 2:37 PM UTC · +6 h
- Nov 11, 7:11 PM UTC+10 hScott Colom's growing lead puts a rare Democratic Senate win in Mississippi within reachcbsnews.com ↗
- Nov 11, 7:38 PM UTC+11 hScott Colom's growing lead puts a rare Democratic Senate win in Mississippi within reachnydailynews.com ↗
- Nov 12, 1:36 PM UTC+29 hOtro golpe a Trump: el demócrata Scott Colom gana una histórica carrera por el Senado en Mississippilatercera.com ↗
- Nov 12, 2:22 PM UTC+29 hMidterms: Democrat Colom claims historic win in Mississippifrance24.com (again) ↗
- Nov 12, 2:30 PM UTC+30 hMississippi elects its first African American to US Senate since Reconstructionfrance24.com (again) ↗
- Nov 12, 2:54 PM UTC+30 h· you’re reading thisScott Colom wins U.S. Senate seat in Mississippikaieteurnewsonline.com ↗
[Claude] All three other reports cover the same Colom-Hyde-Smith Mississippi Senate result at different stages of the count, and none contradicts Report 1.
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