Mississippi Senate election: Democrat Scott Colom narrowly leads Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith

What the coverage shows

NBC News foregrounds Colom’s criticism that Democrats did not invest enough in Mississippi and says the Senate race remains too close to call. CNN instead leads on Colom’s lead in a tight Senate race and his confidence that provisional ballots could help, without emphasizing the party-infrastructure critique. The two outlets converge on a competitive race, but they frame it differently: NBC on his complaint, CNN on the race dynamics and ballot count.

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