On October 20, Democrats put $1.2 million into the Mississippi Senate race in the final two weeks before the 2026 midterms, after a Wedgwood poll showed the race closer than expected. Senate Majority PAC is spending an initial $1.2 million on statewide TV to boost Scott Colum. Domenech says the spending may have rested on a poll created as an experiment that was not real, and the Cook Political Report has since moved the race from solid Republican to likely Republican. Whether the poll was a genuine survey or an experiment, and which reading of the race holds, remains unsettled.