Another blow to Trump: Democrat Scott Collum wins the historic Senate race in Mississippi Democrat Scott Collum defeated the incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi after completing the US midterm election count. In doing so, he would become the first African-American senator from this state in more than 100 years. His narrow victory increases the Democratic Party's majority in the upper house.

Another blow to Trump: Democrat Scott Collum wins the historic Senate race in Mississippi Democrat Scott Collum defeated the incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi after completing the US midterm election count. In doing so, he would become the first African-American senator from this state in more than 100 years. His narrow victory increases the Democratic Party's majority in the upper house.