{"id":894,"date":"2026-11-13T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2026-11-13T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:51:05","slug":"scott-coloms-u-s-senate-win-changes-narrative-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Scott Colom\u2019s U.S. Senate win changes the narrative about Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Scott Colom has won a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, a result that marks a historic milestone.<\/p>\n<p>According to MS NOW, it is the first time that a Black candidate has been elected to a statewide office in a state that has the highest proportion of Black residents in the nation. The outlet describes the victory as changing the narrative about Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/why-scott-colom-mississippi-senate-win-matters-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MS NOW \u2014 Scott Colom\u2019s U.S. Senate win changes the narrative about Mississippi<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/13\/arts\/television\/late-night-seth-meyers-scott-colom.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/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>Scott Colom, Mississippi, U.S. Senate, historic election, statewide office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Colom has won a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, a result that marks a historic milestone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,2],"tags":[309,385,435,1014,1013],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","category-politics","tag-historic-election","tag-mississippi","tag-scott-colom","tag-statewide-office","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","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=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}