A black Democrat is close to a historic victory in a state where no Democrat has won a Senate election since 1982.
In Mississippi, Scott Cullum already managed to win over the Republicans in Forrest County, named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the first leaders of the Ku Klux Klan in the past, Trump won here confidently.
Cullum is now vying for a historic statewide victory. With 97% of the ballots counted, he leads incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by just 2,574 votes.
If Cullum wins, he will become Mississippi's first black senator since 1881. The counting of votes continues.