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<\/p>\n
Good morning. In a stunning upset after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country\u2019s most reliably red states, the Democrat Scott Colom has defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith<\/a>, the incumbent Republican senator, in Mississippi. He becomes the first Black senator elected in the state since Reconstruction.<\/p>\n Colom\u2019s election capped a national wave of anger at Donald Trump\u2019s administration, sweeping away Republicans in places where Democrats had not been competitive in decades. With the addition of Colom, Democrats will hold at least 55 seats in the Senate, the party\u2019s largest midterm gain since 1986.<\/p>\n What did <\/strong>Colom say about his victory?<\/strong> Colom, a 43-year-old district attorney, said there had been times when his long-shot campaign felt defeated but \u201cI had to have faith\u201d. He told supporters<\/a>: \u201cMy commitment to you, each and every one of you, is that first I\u2019m going to treat your children like I want my children to be treated. I\u2019m going to treat your parents the way I want my parents to be treated. I\u2019m gonna treat your future the way I want my future to be.\u201d<\/p>\n How have Democrats responded to a White House threat?<\/strong> Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the oversight committee in the House of Representatives said it appeared Donald Trump had \u201csomething to hide\u201d<\/a> after the White House threatened criminal investigations over the party\u2019s planned scrutiny of the administration. Garcia said in a statement that Congress\u2019s authority came from article I of the constitution, \u201cnot from the permission of the White House\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019s most reliably red states, … 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-81242","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\/81242","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=81242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}