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Vue lecture

How Mississippi Reached the Verge of Electing a Black Senator

The echoes of history surround Scott Colom’s final push toward victory, but assembling the coalition that propelled him took hard work after many Democratic misses.

© Rory Doyle for The New York Times

Scott Colom, a gregarious district attorney from Columbus, Miss., could become the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction.
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