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Colom could become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction

Officials were still counting preliminary ballots, with Colom about 2,000 votes ahead of Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. If he holds that lead, the Mississippi attorney general would become the state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction. The race remains unresolved, but that historic first is now a possibility riding on the count.

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