According to CNBC, Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s Senate election, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Two sources close to Colom’s campaign said Hyde-Smith called him late Wednesday afternoon to concede. Colom, a local district attorney, will be Mississippi’s first Black senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. Democrats will hold at least 55 Senate seats after flipping at least eight seats from Republicans.