The Mississippi Senate election could be determined by the mail-in ballots received after Election Day, whose legality was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Democratic challenger Scott Colom expanded his narrow lead over Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race on Friday afternoon.
As of 5:30 p.m. ET, Colom led Hyde-Smith by 2,498 votes, out of a total of 953,222 counted, with an estimated 97% of the votes in, according to the Associated Press.
That was 685 votes more than Colom’s lead over Hyde-Smith when the day began.
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