民主党人斯科特·科勒姆赢得2026年密西西比州参议院选举，意外flip席位
2026年11月11日 美国东部标准时间下午6:04 / CBS新闻
华盛顿报道 — CBS新闻预测，民主党人斯科特·科勒姆在密西西比州参议院选举中击败了共和党籍参议员辛迪·海德-史密斯，在这场拉锯多日的激烈选举后，为民主党拿下了第8个 flip 的参议院席位。
43岁的科勒姆是一名地区检察官，也是密西西比州的第七代居民。他以生活成本和医疗保健问题为竞选纲领，承诺为”木兰之州”（密西西比州的别称）谋福祉，称海德-史密斯未能做到这一点。他还得到了前总统比尔·克林顿和前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯等核心帮手的支持，两人在大选前几周与科勒姆一同参与竞选活动。
67岁的海德-史密斯自2018年起担任参议员，是首位当选代表密西西比州进入国会的女性。
这场在传统保守的深紅州（共和党票仓州）密西西比州展开的选举意外陷入白热化，选战最后几周竞争愈发激烈。民主党全国委员会上月宣布将首次在该选举中投入广告资金，库克民意报告也将该选区评级从”共和党稳占”调整为”共和党略微占优”，因为全共和党各州都面临的不利因素——不受欢迎的伊朗战争和持续的民生成本问题——甚至蔓延到了这个传统共和党的票仓州。
选举日当天，双方得票数极为接近：在约96%的选票计出后，两位候选人仅相差几十票。但科勒姆的领先优势在随后几天不断扩大。
在选举日到来前，民主党拿下这个席位看起来困难重重。2024年总统选举中，特朗普以20个百分点的优势拿下该州，而自1982年以来，该州从未选出过民主党籍的参议院议员。但选战最后阶段的竞争激烈程度，折射出更广泛的政治环境变化，这意味着一些民主党人在选举周期初期根本不敢奢望能拿下的选区，如今已成为竞争目标。
根据预测结果，民主党在多数派席位上再添一席，这意味着该党已拿下北卡罗来纳州、南卡罗来纳州、得克萨斯州、俄亥俄州、艾奥瓦州、堪萨斯州和缅因州的席位后，总共拿下了8个 flip 的参议院席位。
明年1月，民主党将掌控至少55个参议院席位，共和党则占据44个，阿拉斯加州的参议院选举仍胜负未决。
Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi 2026 Senate race, flipping seat in upset
November 11, 2026 / 6:04 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — Democrat Scott Colom defeated GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race, CBS News projects, delivering Democrats an eighth flipped Senate seat after the dramatic race had been up in the air for days.
Colom, 43, is a district attorney and seventh-generation Mississippian. He campaigned on cost-of-living and healthcare issues, while pledging to deliver for the Magnolia State where he argued Hyde-Smith hasn’t. And he saw support from top surrogates like former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris, who joined Colom on the campaign trail in the weeks leading up to Election Day.
Hyde-Smith, 67, has been in the Senate since 2018, and was the first woman elected to represent Mississippi in Congress.
The race became surprisingly competitive in deep-red Mississippi, heating up in the final weeks of the campaign. National Democrats announced last month that they were investing in ad spending in the race for the first time, and the Cook Political Report changed its rating from solidly Republican to leaning Republican, as the headwinds that faced Republicans across the map — an unpopular war in Iran and persistent affordability issues — even made their way to reliably red states.
The race appeared extremely close the day after Election Day: With about 96% of the vote in, just a few dozen votes separated the candidates. But Colom’s lead strengthened in the days that followed.
Heading into Election Day, the race appeared to be a steep uphill climb for Democrats. President Trump won the state by 20 points in 2024, and the state hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982. But the contest’s competitiveness in the final stages of the campaign was illustrative of the broader political environment, which put seats on the map that Democrats wouldn’t have dreamed of flipping at the beginning of the cycle.
With the projected victory, Democrats add yet another seat to their majority, marking their eighth flip after the party won seats in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas and Maine.
In January, Democrats will control at least 55 Senate seats to Republicans’ 44, with Alaska’s Senate race still a toss-up.
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