{"id":661,"date":"2026-11-11T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:04:48","slug":"mississippi-senate-race-leans-democratic-colom-s-lead-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Senate race leans Democratic as Colom&#x27;s lead grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><!-- AVision: picture 1 left out \u2014 the site answered HTTP 500 to POST \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media with no explanation \u2014 the SERVER failed on the request: a PHP fa --><\/figure>\n<p>A Senate contest in deep-red Mississippi is still undecided, with Democrat Scott Colom mounting a surprisingly competitive challenge to incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Colom has extended his slim lead by more than 3,000 votes, with roughly 95 percent of ballots counted. Two crucial ballot deadlines in the coming days could determine the outcome of a race that few expected to be this close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mississippi-senate-race-results-2026-midterms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News \u2014 Mississippi Senate race leans Democratic as Colom&#x27;s lead grows<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/6212685-mississippi-senate-race-scott-colom-cindy-hyde-smith-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thehill.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mississippi, Senate race, Scott Colom, Cindy Hyde-Smith, midterm elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Senate contest in deep-red Mississippi is still undecided, with Democrat Scott Colom mounting a surprisingly competitive challenge to incumbent Sen.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,2],"tags":[641,59,385,435,121],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","category-politics","tag-cindy-hyde-smith","tag-midterm-elections","tag-mississippi","tag-scott-colom","tag-senate-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}