US state of Mississippi sends first Black senator to Washington in more than 150 years | DW News

Mississippi's closely contested US Senate race has finally been decided after a long ballot counting process - and the result is one almost no-one predicted. Democratic candidate Scott Colom defeated the Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, giving the state its first Black senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. Is this the crest of the Democrats' "Blue Wave" and does the future of the party, of all places, now run through the Deep South? DW's Michael Okwu speaks with political strategist Constance Chucholowski.
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