Mississippi and Alaska Are Down to a Few Hundred Votes. Count Every Legal One, Then Accept the Answer.

The last two Senate races of 2026 are separated by a few dozen votes in Mississippi and a few hundred in Alaska. That is not a crisis. It is the system doing what conservatives asked it to do.

By Clara Hughes

The Democratic wave is real, and Altas has said so plainly. Democrats will run both chambers of Congress in January. But two Senate seats are still undecided, and how they are decided matters more than who wins them. In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom led Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by 43 votes at noon Eastern on Wednesday, according to the Clarion Ledger, which reported that CNN, the Associated Press and NBC all showed the same margin and that no network had called the race. KMBC, updating Wednesday afternoon, still described Colom's lead as "just a few dozen votes." In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola led Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan 102,701 to 102,075, a gap of 626 votes, in the state Division of Elections' unofficial summary report. USA Today, citing the AP, put it at 48.2% to 47.9% and called the race too close to call. Neither race had been called as this was written on Wednesday afternoon, Eastern time. Altas will not call either one before