While votes are still being counted in Colorado, the Senate race in Mississippi is over and Scott Colom is the winner.
Colom is the first Democrat Senator for the state since 1982, the year he was born. And he is the first black Senator to be elected from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era. In a twist of irony for a state that has been synonymous with racism, bigotry and the epitome of the Jim Crow Segregation era, Colom will be serving in the same Senate seat once held by Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy.
This win puts the Democrats at 55 Senators come January when the next Congress is sworn in. At the same time, votes are still being counted in Colorado where Lauren Boebert is hoping to hold on to the very conservative district she moved to a few years ago. As of this posting, 98 percent of the precinct have been counted with Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired Navy two-star Rear Admiral, ahead with just over 3,300 votes.
Boebert who has had a scandalous short term in the Congress since 2021 has failed to concede despite media reports Laubacher is the projected winner. The Democrats will have control of the House of Representatives as they will have at least 255 seats in 2027.
Congratulations, Senator-Elect Colom!
