Townhall··Thursday, November 12, 2026, 7:00 AM

The Blue Wave Crashes Into Deep Red Mississippi

There’s a blue wave, a blue tsunami, and now a mega-tsunami. Maybe that's what we should call this cycle for Democrats. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) has gone down in Mississippi — deep-red Mississippi was washed away in the blue wave as Democrat Scott Colom defeated the Mississippi Republican, becoming the state's first black senator since Reconstruction. The last black senator from Mississippi was Blanche K.

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