Mississippi elects Democrat Colom as state's first post-Civil War Black senator

The blue tsunami is only getting bigger. After over a week of waiting, Mississippi has officially declared that Democrat Scott Colome will be the state's new U.S. Senator. It's a massive shift and a victory that once seemed near impossible. He flipped a seat in deep Republican territory, beating incumbent and Trump-backed Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by a razor-thin margin of around half a percentage point. Colome will be the first Mississippi Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in 40 years and the first black senator from the state since 1881. My commitment to you, each and every one of you, is that first, I'm going to treat your children like I want my children to be treated. I'm going to treat your parents the way I want my parents to be treated. I'm going to treat your future the way I want my future to be. He ran on the economic discontent felt across the U.S. and promised to represent everyone in his state. It's a big night for Democratic supporters who are ecstatic. Everybody is happy that we have came together as a people, not just black people, white people, everybody as a whole, and voted to see Scott as the next senator. We voted for change, and we made it happen. We pushed ourselves, and we're grateful. I think we're just very grateful, again, to be on this side of history. We wanted a change, and it happened. Scott Colome's victory is part of the countrywide backlash against the Republican Party and the Trump administration. With states from Mississippi to Texas and South Carolina all flipping blue in these midterms, there's a realization among Democrats that winning the South is possible.