Colom widens narrow lead over Hyde-Smith as ballot deadlines pass
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Democratic district attorney Scott Colom extended his slim margin over incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi after provisional and mail-in ballots were due.
Democratic nominee Scott Colom, a district attorney, increased his lead over incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race after Tuesday’s deadline for resolving provisional ballots and receiving mail-in absentee ballots that were postmarked by Election Day. As of 4:30 p.m. ET, Colom was ahead by 2,607 votes out of 953,547 votes counted, a margin of about 0.27 percentage points, according to the Associated Press. Independent candidate Ty Pinkins had 20,034 votes.
Mississippi is one of only two Senate contests still undecided, the other being in Alaska. The state has not elected a Democratic senator since 1982, and a Colom victory would make him the first Black senator from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era.
In Alaska, Democratic nominee Mary Peltola leads incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan by 2,517 votes, with the race potentially moving to a ranked-choice tabulation if neither candidate reaches 50 percent of the total vote.