{"id":867241,"date":"2026-10-01T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:22:12","slug":"mississippi-democrats-dare-to-wonder-whether-senate-seat-is-in-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867241\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Democrats dare to wonder whether Senate seat is in reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TXFIJAY3QVHAFJOXUIQ654YRYQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The last time a Democrat won a Senate race in Mississippi, the party\u2019s candidate this year, Scott Colom, hadn\u2019t been born.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CFOOIQDCPJCNPBOO43I6MLKVT4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Now Colom, the 43-year-old district attorney for several counties in northeast Mississippi, has top Democratic officials and donors increasingly hopeful that he could pull off the inconceivable and use this year\u2019s poor political environment for Republicans to win a Senate race that just a few months ago was nowhere to be found on the party\u2019s 2026 plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last time a Democrat won a Senate race in Mississippi, the party\u2019s candidate this year, Scott Colom,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-867241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}