WBUR TODAY: Another deadlocked jury?
❤️ Donate Tuesday, November 10, 2026 ☀️ Mostly sunny, with a high near 57. Good Morning Boston, More than six years after his failed effort to oust Sen. Ed Markey , former Rep. Joe Kennedy III is on the cusp of celebrating a shocking Senate win — but not his own. After leaving office in 2021, Kennedy founded the Groundwork Project and has been quietly organizing and raising money for Democratic candidates in some of the country's reddest states. That includes Mississippi, where Democrat Scott Colom currently leads incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by just over 2,500 votes in a race that's still too close to call . (Today is the final day absentee votes in Mississippi can legally be received, and it remains unclear how many ballots are left .) In an interview with WBUR's Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing, Kennedy said he "spent an awful lot of time in Mississippi" (a state his grandfather famously toured ) and knew Colom's race would be clos...