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- Former President Barack Obama launched a 30-second digital and radio ad endorsing Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom.
- The ad is part of a seven-figure media purchase.
- Obama praised Colom for improving safety, prosecuting violent crimes and fighting corruption.
- Data for Progress poll shows Colom trailing Hyde-Smith by roughly six percentage points.
- Colom would become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction if elected.