民主党人斯科特科洛姆会让共和党现任参议员感到不安。美联社（Associated Press）周三预测，辛迪·海德·史密斯（Cindy Hyde-Smith）将在密西西比州赢得一个共和党席位。
随着99%在报道的预期投票中，Colom首先介绍49．2%，海德-史密斯公司48．7%的投票，与Colom领先于大约4700投票。
科罗姆的胜利是民主党在参议院的第八次胜利，阿拉斯加州的比赛尚未决定。
一名竞选发言人向ABC新闻证实，海德-史密斯已经打电话给科罗姆承认。
在一个录像海德-史密斯周三晚上在她的竞选账户上写道：“虽然这不是我们努力争取或希望的结果，但我尊重密西西比州选民的决定。我要祝贺斯科特·科罗姆，并祝愿他在承担代表我们伟大国家的重大责任时一切顺利。”
Colom是密西西比-阿拉巴马州沿线四个县的地区检察官，也是美国地区法官的前提名人。他将是密西西比州重建以来的第一位美国黑人参议员。
虽然他的竞选最初被视为希望渺茫，但在竞选的最后几个月，科罗姆获得了更多的关注，与前总统比尔·克林顿和前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯等党内重要人物一起出现。他还在一个竞选视频中疯传，视频中他嘲笑海德-史密斯因为牛肉价格高而选择其他蛋白质的评论。
海德-史密斯正在竞选第二个完整任期，在10月的一次集会上与唐纳德·特朗普总统一起竞选，并坚持认为她是该州的正确选择。
科罗姆和海德-史密斯甚至在科罗姆竞选参议员之前就有一些历史，因为她在2023年阻止了他对联邦法官的提名，尽管科罗姆说他已经原谅了她这样做。
科洛姆在选举日之后的一次采访中告诉美国广播公司新闻，他的竞选活动直到大约一个月前才在密西西比州以外得到很多关注或资源，因为他党内的一些人无法理解民主党人可以在木兰花州翻转参议院席位。
他说，这迫使他建立了一个地面游戏，带他到该州的许多地区，让他与许多选民面对面。他说，许多选民倾向于他，因为他们厌倦了华盛顿的失信。
“选民被背叛了。这给了我们在任何地方竞争的机会。对我来说，我不怕大声说出来，我也不怕说出我要做的事情，”他说。
两个竞选团队及其相关政党都在选举日之后表示，由于他们之间的差距仍然很小，他们已经做好了在竞选中可能提起诉讼的准备，特别是在双方估计可能会有数千人参加的临时投票上。
Democrat Colom flips Mississippi Senate seat
Democrat ScottColom will upset Republican incumbent Sen．Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi， The Associated Press projected Wednesday， flipping a Republican seat in a ruby-red state．
With99%of the expected vote reported，Colom leads with49．2%， and Hyde-Smith has48．7%of the vote， withColom leading byabout 4，700votes．
Colom＇s win is the eighth Democratic pickup in the Senate with the race in Alaska yet to be decided．
Hyde-Smith has called Colom to concede， a campaign spokesperson confirmed to ABC News．
In avideoposted on her campaign account Wednesday evening， Hyde-Smith said， “While this is not the outcome we worked for or hoped for， I respect the decision of Mississippi voters． I want to congratulate Scott Colom and wish him well as he takes on the tremendous responsibility of representing our great state．”
Colom is a district attorney for four counties along the Mississippi-Alabama state line and a former nominee to become a U．S． district judge． He will be Mississippi＇s first Black U．S． senator since Reconstruction．
While his campaign had initially been seen as a long shot， Colom built up more buzz in the last few months of the campaign， appearing with major party figures such as former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris． He also went viral with a campaign video where he mocked Hyde-Smith over comments she made about choosing other options for proteins because of high beef prices．
Hyde-Smith， who was running for a second full term， campaigned with President Donald Trump during a rally in October and insisted she was the right choice for the state．
Colom and Hyde-Smith had some history even before Colom＇s Senate run， as she blocked his nomination for federal judge in 2023， although Colom has said he has forgiven her for doing so．
Colom told ABC News in an interview after Election Day that his campaign didn＇t get much attention or resources outside Mississippi until about a month ago because some in his party couldn＇t fathom that Democrats could flip a Senate seat in the Magnolia State．
He says that forced him to build a ground game which took him to many areas of the state and put him face-to-face with a lot of voters． He said many of those voters gravitated towards him because they were tired of broken promises in Washington．
＂The voters were betrayed． That gave us an opportunity to compete everywhere． And for me， I wasn＇t afraid to call that out， and I wasn＇t also afraid to say what I was going to do，＂ he said．
Both campaigns and their associated political parties had indicated after Election Day， as the margin between them remained tight， that they were ready for potential litigation in the race， particularly over provisional ballots that both sides estimated could number in the thousands．
