00:00Democrat Scott Colum has scored a surprise victory in Mississippi's U.S. Senate race,
00:07defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in a state that has long leaned Republican.
00:12The result makes Colum the first black senator elected from Mississippi in more than 150 years.
00:22The race was much closer than expected, with fewer than 5,000 votes separating the two candidates
00:29out of nearly a million ballots counted. Colum not only won traditionally Democratic areas,
00:35but also picked up Republican-leaning areas, including Forest County,
00:39which Donald Trump won in all three of his presidential runs.
00:43During his campaign, Colum focused on accessible health care, protecting rural hospitals and the cost of living.
00:49His victory adds to a string of Democratic gains in this year's midterm elections.
00:54The party has also flipped Senate seats in Republican strongholds,
00:58including Texas, South Carolina, Kansas and Iowa.
01:01Democrats have now secured control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives,
01:06with a handful of races still to be called and the final size of their majorities yet to be determined.
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