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Cindy Hyde-Smith (Republican), Scott Colom (Democrat) and Ty Pinkins (independent) are the nominees for Mississippi's U.S. Senate seat in the November 3, 2026 general election. Cindy Hyde-Smith is the incumbent. By their latest FEC reports, Cindy Hyde-Smith's campaign had raised $4.6 million (through October 14, 2026), Scott Colom's campaign $4.4 million (through October 14, 2026) and Ty Pinkins's campaign $105,000 (through October 14, 2026). Outside groups have reported $834,000 for Cindy Hyde-Smith and $6.3 million against; $10.1 million for Scott Colom and $1.7 million against. Semblen has analyzed 1 ad in this race; 1 used at least one rhetorical technique, most often name calling and loaded language.
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP, incumbent), Scott Colom (DEM), Ty Pinkins (IND).
3 others filed with the FEC; any ads they ran are below. 1 ad analyzed, 1 with at least one technique in the copy.
Newest first. The paid-for-by line is the advertiser's own filing. Updated 2026-10-24.
From each campaign's own website, summarised in plain English, with a quote where they gave one; under an issue, Senate votes for those who have cast them. Full detail and sources on each profile: Cindy Hyde-Smith · Scott Colom · Ty Pinkins.
Economy and cost of livingHyde-Smith: stated · Colom: stated · Pinkins: stated
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP, incumbent)
Hyde-Smith says government does not create jobs and that private businesses drive the economy. She says she will work with President Trump to roll back federal rules and regulations she sees as hindering job growth.
“government does not create jobs—people and businesses in the private sector are the drivers of our economy.”
Colom says he would vote to take back Congress's power over tariffs, require a congressional vote before the U.S. goes to war, and fight to raise the minimum wage and tie it to the cost of living. He also says he would seek a seat on the Agriculture Committee.
“Fight to raise the minimum wage and tie it to the cost of living, so workers never wait years and years for a raise again”
Pinkins says he wants to bring good-paying jobs to every part of Mississippi by encouraging business investment, expanding skills training, and starting a summer apprenticeship program for 15- and 16-year-olds. He also says he would write farm bills with small family farmers in mind and oppose trade deals that undercut Mississippi farmers.
Taxes and government spendingHyde-Smith: stated · Colom: stated · Pinkins: stated
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP, incumbent)
Hyde-Smith says she has always supported lower taxes and backs the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. She says she will work to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
“Cindy will always fight to make sure families and businesses keep more of their hard-earned money.”
Health careHyde-Smith: stated · Colom: stated · Pinkins: stated
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP, incumbent)
Hyde-Smith says she supports patient-centered health care changes to help Mississippi families afford insurance without expanding the government's role in providing health care.
Colom says he would vote to cancel the Medicaid cuts, restore the ACA tax credits that lower premiums, and restore and strengthen federal ACA funding to encourage Mississippi to expand Medicaid.
“Vote to cancel the Medicaid cuts to help keep rural Mississippi’s emergency rooms and delivery rooms open”
Pinkins says he supports the Medicare for All Act, which would guarantee every American access to affordable health care. He calls health care a fundamental human right.
“I believe healthcare is a fundamental human right—not a privilege based on your job, your ZIP code, or your luck.”
Immigration and the borderHyde-Smith: stated · Colom: stated · Pinkins: no position
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP, incumbent)
Hyde-Smith says illegal immigration must end. She supports building a wall on the southwestern border and more funding to enforce immigration laws, and says immigrants should enter by following the law.
“Immigrants who wish to live and work here must enter our great country the same way others have in previous generations— by following the law.”
AbortionHyde-Smith: stated · Colom: no position · Pinkins: stated
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP, incumbent)
Hyde-Smith says she believes in the sanctity of life, including for the unborn, and opposes taxpayer funding of abortions. She says she supports legislation to protect unborn children and will vote to confirm judges who interpret the law as written.
Pinkins says he supports a woman's right to decide about abortion, contraception and prenatal care, and that politicians should not make those decisions. He says he supports protecting reproductive freedom and opposes policies that criminalize reproductive health care.
“These are deeply personal decisions that should be made by women—not politicians.”
Colom says he would push for a pause on new data center construction until companies agree to pay for their own power and water, disclose the deal before it is signed, and commit in writing to hire Mississippi workers. He also says communities should have the final say on whether data centers come in.
Pinkins says climate change is real and man-made, and he would stand up to the oil industry and end its tax subsidies. He says he would invest in resilient, cleaner energy infrastructure, support climate-smart farming, and back policies that pressure other countries to cut emissions.
“climate change is real, it’s man-made, and we’re running out of time”
GunsHyde-Smith: stated · Colom: no position · Pinkins: no position
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP, incumbent)
Hyde-Smith holds an enhanced-carry permit and says she will always stand up for Second Amendment rights, including the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.
“She will always stand up for our 2 nd Amendment Constitutional rights.”
Colom, a district attorney, says he would back law enforcement with pay and tools to do the job and hold the powerful to the same law as everyone else. He says preventing crime means ensuring criminals are held accountable and pushing for more jobs and opportunities.
“Back law enforcement with the pay and tools to do the job”
Pinkins says serious crimes deserve serious consequences, but he wants a justice system focused more on rehabilitation and removing barriers to reentry after release. He says he would fund police with a focus on community safety rather than militarization, appoint independent prosecutors for police shootings, and phase out private prison contracts.
EducationHyde-Smith: stated · Colom: no position · Pinkins: stated
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP, incumbent)
Hyde-Smith says the federal government should support state efforts to improve education but should not dictate how states do it. She says she will back policies that let states, communities, teachers and parents make those decisions.
“Mississippi does not need Washington telling it how to raise and educate its children”
Pinkins says he wants to fully fund public schools and raise teacher salaries to address the teacher shortage. He also supports smaller class sizes, expanded reading programs, career and technical education, affordable pre-K, and more counseling services.
“ensure every child has access to a high-quality public education”
Foreign policy and defenseHyde-Smith: stated · Colom: stated · Pinkins: no position
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP, incumbent)
Hyde-Smith says she will support policies to strengthen the military and ensure veterans receive promised benefits. She says she stands with Israel, backs moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and favors good relations with allies.
Colom says he would ban members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks, bar senators from taking money from companies under federal investigation, create a Senate ethics office with enforcement power, and work to overturn Citizens United.
“Ban members of Congress, their spouses and their dependent children from trading stocks, with no loopholes”
Pinkins says he supports the Freedom to Vote Act, the Preventing Election Subversion Act, independent redistricting commissions, and overturning Citizens United. He also proposes making Election Day a national holiday.
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Ratings and endorsements
How groups that score Congress rate each candidate, exactly as each group published it, with the year. Below the ratings, each group's 2026 endorsements and the anti-tax pledge, labelled as such. We don't combine or adjust them; the list of groups is fixed and the same in every race. Each is marked national or state: all are national except the state AFL-CIO federations and police lodges. Sources and what each group is on each profile: Cindy Hyde-Smith · Scott Colom · Ty Pinkins.
Scott Colom and Ty Pinkins have not served in Congress, so the groups that score votes in Congress have no rating for them. They show as "Not rated" below.
Taxes and spending
Group
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP)
Scott Colom (DEM)
Ty Pinkins (IND)
National Taxpayers Union(national)A taxpayer group that favors lower taxes and less spending. Scores every Senate and House roll call on taxes, spending and regulation, weighted by importance; a higher score means more votes the way NTU wanted.
Taxpayer Protection Pledge (Americans for Tax Reform)(national)A written promise to Americans for Tax Reform, an anti-tax group, to oppose any increase in income tax rates. Taken almost only by Republicans; signers from ATR's own list.
Heritage Action for America(national)The advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Scores votes and co-sponsorships it picks; a higher score means more often siding with Heritage Action.
ACLU(national)The American Civil Liberties Union, a civil-liberties group. Scores votes it picks on civil rights and liberties; a higher score means more often voting the way the ACLU wanted.
American Energy Alliance(national)A free-market energy group that supports oil, gas and coal and opposes climate regulation. Scores energy and climate votes it picks; a higher score means more often siding with AEA.
League of Conservation Voters(national)An environmental group. Scores votes it picks on the environment, climate, energy and public lands; a higher score means more often voting the way LCV wanted.
LCV Action Fund(national)The political arm of the League of Conservation Voters, an environmental group. Endorses candidates it judges pro-environment, mostly Democrats.
ClearPath Action Fund(national)A clean-energy group that backs nuclear, natural gas, hydropower and faster permitting, and endorses Republicans only. The closest energy-side group that publishes endorsements; not a mirror of LCV.
Not endorsed
Not endorsed
Not endorsed
Abortion
Group
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP)
Scott Colom (DEM)
Ty Pinkins (IND)
SBA Pro-Life America(national)An anti-abortion group. Grades A+ to F on abortion-related votes it picks; A+ means most often voting the way SBA wanted.
Reproductive Freedom for All(national)An abortion-rights group, formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America. Scores abortion and reproductive-health votes it picks; a higher score means more often voting the way it wanted.
Endorsed2026, national (SBA Pro-Life America Candidate Fund)
Not endorsed
Not endorsed
Reproductive Freedom for All (2026 endorsements)(national)The abortion-rights group formerly called NARAL Pro-Choice America. Endorses candidates who support abortion rights; listed here from its own 2026 list.
Not endorsed
Not endorsed
Not endorsed
Economy and labor
Group
Cindy Hyde-Smith (REP)
Scott Colom (DEM)
Ty Pinkins (IND)
AFL-CIO Legislative Scorecard(national)The AFL-CIO, the largest federation of U.S. labor unions. Scores key votes it picks on workers and the economy; a higher score means more often voting the way the unions wanted.
Club for Growth(national)A free-market group that favors lower taxes, less spending and less regulation. Scores economic votes it picks (17 Senate and 19 House votes in 2025); a higher score means more often voting the way the Club wanted.
AFL-CIO (state federation)(state)State federations of the AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. union federation, endorse in their state's Senate race, mostly Democrats.
NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF)(national)The National Rifle Association's political arm, which opposes most gun restrictions. Grades A+ to F from voting records, public statements and its own questionnaire, without publishing what each grade rests on; AQ means a grade from the questionnaire alone.
Brady(national)Brady (the Brady Campaign and Brady PAC), a gun-violence-prevention group. Endorses candidates who back gun-safety laws; it does not publish a rating of every member.
Not endorsed
Not endorsed
Not endorsed
Giffords PAC(national)The political arm of Giffords, a gun-violence-prevention group founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords. Endorses candidates who back gun-safety laws; it does not publish a rating of every member.
Not endorsed
Not endorsed
Not endorsed
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Money in this race
From FEC filings for 2025–26. Outside spending is money a group spends on its own about a candidate — TV and online ads, mail, canvassing. It is not a donation to the campaign, and the candidate does not control it. Supporting means it was spent to help that candidate win; Opposing means it was spent to defeat them, usually on attack ads. Groups report it within 24 or 48 hours as the election nears. Raised is the campaign's own fundraising, as of its latest quarterly report. Largest donors come from each outside spender's own FEC receipts, with each donor's share of its itemized receipts; donors under $100,000 are not named. People are shown with the employer and occupation they reported. A donor that is itself a political committee is shown with its own largest donors. Companies and nonprofits don't report their funders to the FEC, so the trail ends there, and the page says so.
AB PAC— $2.3M opposing Hyde-SmithLargest donors:
AB FOUNDATION $13.0M (30%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); DEMOCRACY MATTERS $5.6M (13%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); Deborah Simon $5.0M (11%), Retired; DEMOCRACY PAC $4.0M (9%); Lynn S Stern $1.0M (2%), Self Employed, PhotographerWINSENATE— $1.2M opposing Hyde-SmithLargest donors:
SMP $4.1M (100%) (its largest donors: MAJORITY FORWARD $61.0M, an organization; Fred Eychaner $9.0M; DEMOCRACY PAC $9.0M)NEW DEAL FOR ALL, INC.— $878K opposing Hyde-SmithNEW SOUTHERN MAJORITY IE PAC— $872K opposing Hyde-SmithLargest donors:
SPLC ACTION FUND $900K (94%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC)GOVERNMENT THAT WORKS PAC— $810K opposing Hyde-SmithLargest donors:
RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT ACTION $7.0M (31%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); AB PAC $3.5M (16%); CIVITECH, PBC $3.0M (13%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); CONTOURS, INC. $2.9M (13%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); YOUR COMMUNITY PAC $600K (3%)and 8 more
$4.4M through 2026-10-14individuals $3.6M · PACs $418K · party $600 · candidate's own money, incl. loans $25K · from the candidate's other committees $364K · cash on hand $1.0M
GOVERNMENT THAT WORKS PAC— $3.1M supporting ColomLargest donors:
RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT ACTION $7.0M (31%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); AB PAC $3.5M (16%); CIVITECH, PBC $3.0M (13%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); CONTOURS, INC. $2.9M (13%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); YOUR COMMUNITY PAC $600K (3%)FULCRUM PAC— $2.0M supporting ColomLargest donors:
DEMOCRACY PAC $1.0M (100%)SLF PAC— $1.7M opposing Colom
· 1 ad on this pageLargest donors:
ONE NATION $70.7M (28%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); Miriam Adelson $30.0M (12%), Adelson Drug Clinic, Physician; Stephen A Schwarzman $17.0M (7%), Blackstone, Chairman & CEO; Paul Elliott Singer $14.5M (6%), EMC, President; Elon Musk $10.0M (4%), Space Exploration Technologies Corp., CEOREADY FOR THE FIGHT— $1.2M supporting ColomWINSENATE— $1.0M supporting ColomLargest donors:
SMP $4.1M (100%) (its largest donors: MAJORITY FORWARD $61.0M, an organization; Fred Eychaner $9.0M; DEMOCRACY PAC $9.0M)and 15 more
Bundled through PACs
$3,500 through 1 PAC · FEC bulk data of 2026-11-01SERVE AMERICA PAC— $3,500 from 1 gift
56 PACs gave directly — alphabetical; the legal limit is $5,000 per election
ADVANCING DEMOCRACY AND MOBILIZATION PAC $5,000
ALL FOR OUR COUNTRY LEADERSHIP PAC $5,000
ALPHA PAC $1,000
ALSOPAC $10K
AMERICAN ASSOC FOR JUSTICE PAC (AAJ PAC) $10K
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS (AFT), AFL-CIO COPE $1,000
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SCOTT COLOM: TOO LIBERAL, TOO RADICAL
Paid for by Senate Leadership Fundvideo · 0:30from 2026-10-23
You can tell a lot about liberal Scott Colom based on his friends. New York liberals George Soros, Chuck Schumer, and AOC have given him big campaign money. Colom proudly campaigns with Kamala Harris because Colom supports their radical agenda.
He would allow transgender medical procedures for children and boys in girls bathrooms. Scott Colom, too liberal, too radical. SLF PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising.
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