WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrat Scott Colom stunned voters in Mississippi by winning the Senate seat with 51.3% of the vote, a 4.7-point margin over Republican incumbent Michael McCaul, marking the most significant GOP defeat in a state that has been reliably red for nearly three decades.

Colom secured 508,000 votes to McCaul's 481,000, a 27,000‑vote swing that echoes a national trend of Democratic gains in traditionally Republican heartland counties. The election

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