GOP pins hopes in Mississippi Senate race on late-arriving ballots

As Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) narrowly trails her Democratic challenger Scott Colom by just a few hundred votes in the unexpectedly close Senate race in Mississippi, Republicans are now hoping a Supreme Court loss on late-arriving mail ballots earlier this year will help save their senator from being the latest victim of the blue tsunami.

Colom leads Hyde-Smith by 1,724 votes with an estimated 95.6% of the votes counted, as of midday Thursday per the Associated Press, in a race that major media outlets have yet to call for either candidate. The remaining votes will be largely from provisional ballots and late-arriving mail ballots, which both Democrats and Republicans hope will break toward them.