‘Pick another protein’: A cattle rancher senator’s answer on beef prices could give Democrats their first Mississippi Senate win since 1982

Three years ago, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith made sure Scott Colom would not become a federal judge. Now, he may take her Senate seat. President Joe Biden nominated Colom, a district attorney in northeast Mississippi, to the federal bench in 2022, and Mississippi’s other Republican senator, Roger Wicker, supported him. Hyde-Smith blocked the nomination because of what she called his “opposition to legislation to protect female athletes” and because of past support from a PAC funded by George Soros. And so in 2025, Colom announced he would run against her .

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