Senate GOP Keeps Thune as Leader

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Scott Colom Will Be Mississippi’s Third Black Senator. Who Were the First Two?

Mr. Revels took his seat two days after Mississippi was readmitted to the union after the Civil War. Mr. Bruce served just before white leaders ushered in the Jim Crow era.

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Hyde-Smith Concedes to Colom: ‘I Respect the Decision of Mississippi Voters’

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress, said that her campaign “worked tirelessly to ensure every legally cast vote was counted.”

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Colom’s Victory Pads Democrats’ Majority in the Senate

The victory in Mississippi gives Democrats 55 seats as they await results in the Alaska race, leaving them short of a 60-seat supermajority but cushioning their margin of control.

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US midterms: Democrat Colom defeats Hyde-Smith in Mississippi to win historic Senate seat

Democratic challenger Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi election for the US Senate, media projected on Wednesday, making him the Southern state’s first black senator since the Reconstruction era that followed the US Civil War. The result was a stunning upset in the ‌heavily Republican state and expanded on the national drubbing the Democrats delivered to President Donald Trump’s Republicans in the November 3 midterm elections. The Mississippi victory...

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At least 10 new Dem members will carry Al Greene's mantle and try to impeach President Trump

Rep. Al Green says at least 10 incoming House Democratic caucus members will join his impeachment push, citing President Trump's crypto dealings and what they described as corruption.

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