Scott Colom ousts Cindy Hyde-Smith in historic Mississippi Senate flip

Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a stunning Mississippi upset, becoming the first Democrat elected to the state's Senate delegation since 1982, AP projects.Why it matters: Colom's victory marks another extraordinary breakthrough for Democrats in the Deep South, extending the historic blue wave that handed the party control of both chambers of Congress.Colom also becomes Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction. Hiram Rhodes Revels became the nation'...