Hyde-Smith ‘feeling very optimistic’ despite trailing in Mississippi vote count

Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) is “feeling very optimistic” about her reelection odds despite her Democratic challenger, Scott Colom, narrowly leading her in the Senate race with over 95 percent of the vote counted as of Tuesday. “We got a few thousand out so we’re feeling very optimistic,” the incumbent senator told CBS News’s Caitlin…