{"id":81218,"date":"2026-11-11T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/how-scott-colom-won-deep-red-mississippi-with-little-help-from-democrats\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T18:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T23:55:07","slug":"how-scott-colom-won-deep-red-mississippi-with-little-help-from-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/how-scott-colom-won-deep-red-mississippi-with-little-help-from-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"How Scott Colom won deep-red Mississippi with little help from Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat chatted up people at hair salons, colleges and at Trump rallies to become Mississippi\u2019s first Black senator since Reconstruction<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/ozTp2-tou5I\">ad<\/a> is simple, less than half a minute long, but many say it was the moment the nation took notice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mississippi\">Mississippi<\/a>\u2019s US Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>In it, the incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a cattle farmer, answers a reporter\u2019s question about the rising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/31\/business\/beef-prices-protein.html\">price of beef<\/a>: \u201cYou know, you have so many proteins to choose from,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/11\/scott-colom-mississippi-democrat-senate-midterms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat chatted up people at hair salons, colleges and at Trump rallies to become Mississippi\u2019s first Black senator since Reconstruction The ad is simple, less than half a minute long, but many say it was the moment the nation took notice of Mississippi\u2019s US Senate race. In it, the incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a &#8230; <a title=\"How Scott Colom won deep-red Mississippi with little help from Democrats\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/how-scott-colom-won-deep-red-mississippi-with-little-help-from-democrats\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How Scott Colom won deep-red Mississippi with little help from Democrats\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}