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Harris to campaign with Colom in Mississippi
The list of national Democrats coming alongside the party’s U.S. Senate nominee in Mississippi in the lead up to the November 3 General Election continues to grow.
Updated Oct 16, 2026, 2:28 PM ET
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Scott Colom
District Attorney, 16th Judicial District of Mississippi (since 2016)
Scott Colom, a Democrat and district attorney for Mississippi's 16th Judicial District since 2016, is challenging Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in the 2026 election.
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MS Senate candidate 'pick another senator' ad went viral. See why
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom, who is angling to unseat incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith come Nov. 3, released an ad on Oct. 13 that went viral nearly immediately.
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Wealthy Florida trial lawyer who wants Democrats to usher in another New Deal is funding ad blitz for Colom in Mississippi
Scott Colom’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Mississippi is getting a little help from his trial lawyer friends in Florida.
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Kamala Harris to visit Mississippi Oct. 22 to support Senate candidate Scott Colom
On Oct. 22, she will be in Columbus, Mississippi, with Scott Colom, who would be the state’s first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
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Democrat Threatens Historic Senate Upset in Deep-Red Mississippi
Colom drew 91 percent support among Black voters and led 56 percent to 44 percent among voters aged 18 to 29.
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Review Hyde-Smith, Colom spar over Mississippi health care
Health care is emerging as a central issue in Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, with incumbent Sen.
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Kamala Harris coming to Mississippi to campaign for U.S. Senate hopeful Scott Colom
He also said he’d be willing to work with Republicans, pointing to his support for gun rights and securing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Scott Colom targets Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi Senate race
Prosecutor Scott Colom is trying to unseat Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and become the state's first newly elected U.S. senator since 1946.
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- Born
- December 24, 1982
- Education
- Millsaps College (BA, 2005)
University of Wisconsin Law School (JD, cum laude, 2009)
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Background
Scott Winston Colom was born on December 24, 1982, and is a native of Columbus, Mississippi. He graduated from Millsaps College with a Bachelor of Arts in 2005 and completed his Juris Doctor, cum laude, at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2009.
Career
Colom started his legal career at the Mississippi Center for Justice, where he was a staff attorney from 2009 to 2011, and ran his own practice, the Colom Law Firm, from 2011 to 2016.
In 2011, at age 28, he was appointed a justice court judge in Lowndes County, the first Black person to hold that post there; between 2012 and 2013 he held a municipal judgeship in Aberdeen and an interim justice court post in Lowndes County, and from 2013 to 2016 he prosecuted cases for the city of Columbus on a part-time basis.
In 2015 he was elected district attorney for Mississippi's 16th Judicial District, unseating Forrest Allgood, who had held the office for almost 30 years. Sworn in on January 4, 2016, he became the first Black district attorney elected in a majority-white district in Mississippi.
He was reelected unopposed in 2019 and with more than 56% of the vote in 2023. President Joe Biden said on October 14, 2022, that he would nominate Colom for a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
The Senate sent the nomination back to the White House on January 3, 2023; Biden resubmitted it on January 23, 2023, and it came back a second time on January 3, 2024.
2026 race
Colom, a Democrat, entered the Senate race in September 2025 to challenge Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is seeking a second full term. In the Democratic primary on March 10, 2026, he took 73% of the vote in a field with Marine veteran Albert Littell and Priscilla Williams-Till; Hyde-Smith won the Republican primary the same day with 80.8%. If elected on November 3, 2026, he would become Mississippi's first African American senator since Reconstruction.