First Thing: Mississippi turns blue as Scott Colom unseats Republican Senate incumbent

Defeating Cindy Hyde-Smith makes the 43-year-old district attorney the first Black Mississippi senator elected since Reconstruction. Plus, the South Korean scarf vendor who has gone viral for telling people not to buy Good morning. In a stunning upset after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states, the Democrat Scott Colom has defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith , the incumbent Republican senator, in Mississippi. He becomes the first Black senator elected in the state since Reconstruction. Colom’s election capped a national wave of anger at Donald Trump’s…

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