Scott Colom spent most of his campaign flying under the radar, with few paying much attention to his long-shot bid. Then he pulled off an upset, toppling the Republican incumbent in Mississippi's Senate race.<\/p>\n
Colom's win came despite the steep odds stacked against him throughout the contest.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> The New York Times \u2014 \u2018I Had to Have Faith\u2019: How a Democrat Defied Long Odds in Mississippi\u2019s Senate Race<\/a>. Also reported by thehill.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n Mississippi, Senate race, Scott Colom, Democrats, Election 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scott Colom spent most of his campaign flying under the radar, with few paying much attention to his long-shot bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,2],"tags":[188,63,385,435,121],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","category-politics","tag-democrats","tag-election-2026","tag-mississippi","tag-scott-colom","tag-senate-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}