{"id":160117,"date":"2026-11-12T00:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=160117"},"modified":"2026-11-12T00:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T00:02:23","slug":"us-midterms-democrat-colom-defeats-hyde-smith-in-mississippi-to-win-historic-senate-seatunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=160117","title":{"rendered":"US midterms: Democrat Colom defeats Hyde-Smith in Mississippi to win historic Senate seatUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostDemocratic challenger Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi election for the US Senate, media projected on Wednesday, making him the Southern state\u2019s first black senator since the Reconstruction era that followed the US Civil War.<br \/>\nThe result was a stunning upset in the \u200cheavily Republican state and expanded on the national drubbing the Democrats delivered to President Donald Trump\u2019s Republicans in the November 3 midterm elections.<br \/>\nThe Mississippi victory&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3374129\/democrat-colom-defeats-hyde-smith-mississippi-win-historic-senate-seat\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostDemocratic challenger Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi election for the US Senate, media projected on Wednesday,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}