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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcDaniels Declares Victory!
State Senator Chris McDaniel, who was narrowly defeated by incumbent U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi) last Tuesday in a heated primary runoff, is soldiering on.
In an email sent to supporters Friday night, McDaniel emphasized he won the "Republican" primary an apparent reference to Cochran openly soliciting many Democrats to vote in the runoff.
"Thank you for all your help. You've done some amazing things. On June 3rd we won the popular vote. On June 24th we won the Republican primary election. As you might have heard, we're not quite done," McDaniel wrote.
McDaniel then asked his supporters to reach out to a law firm, which he said was in need of volunteers.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/defeated-mississippi-tea-party-candidate-134737605.html
hatrack
(59,584 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...who says his opponent is a body double for a dead candidate.
spanone
(135,828 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Cha
(297,167 posts)would never stoop to doing anything within legal bounds to win. Rofl.
world wide wally
(21,741 posts)results of an election by the people.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)Cha
(297,167 posts)would give the Dems if he did.
JI7
(89,247 posts)being in control.
Cha
(297,167 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I suppose what he could do would be to try to discredit the fall result by launching campaign to get his supporters to spoil their ballots.
JI7
(89,247 posts)herding cats
(19,564 posts)The Republicans have totally lost control of their fringe. I'd be scared if I could stop laughing long enough!
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)I hope the teabaggers get so overwrought about this that they show us new heights of idiocy that we never even dreamed of seeing! I hope they have a big crying jag for the whole nation to see. I'll make martinis of their tears and wallow in their anguish. In Mississippi. you have to enjoy the entertainment when you get it. It's boring here most of the time, but when it's good, it's very good.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)The GOP has tried, and failed, to reign in their Tea Party fringe. They made the mistake of embracing them in the first place to gain control of congress, and now the Teabaggers are high on the power they gave them. It is going to take them years and years to kill off the monster they set loose on their party. The funniest part is there is no way for them to remain whole either during or after the battle for power!
In an extreme scenario they could potentially even lose Mississippi before the whole war is over. Now wouldn't that be a poke in the eye?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)To not only have a Dem as president and having demographic patterns working against you, but also having your own party squabbling amongst itself and many of the ideologues getting frustrated with the establishment and threatening to break off to do their own thing. The only things the Reds have in their favor are CU, gerrymandering, the SC, and being in power in the House. If those go down the drain, it's a rap.