Posted on 06/27/2014 8:47:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Chris McDaniel, the tea partyer who nearly beat Sen. Thad Cochran in Tuesday's Mississippi primary runoff, still hasn't conceded. Analysts say he's damaging his future.
Chris McDaniel came within a few thousand votes of being the next Ted Cruz.
Now, two days after his stunning loss in Mississippi’s high-stakes GOP Senate runoff, Mr. McDaniel risks ruining a potentially bright political future, say both Mississippi and national political observers.
The charismatic, tea party-backed state senator, who took on six-term Sen. Thad Cochran in the marquee primary of 2014, has still refused to concede the race, claiming “voter irregularities.” Thursday afternoon, McDaniel’s campaign called on the state Republican chairman to direct circuit clerks to “cooperate with McDaniel volunteers seeking election data.”
Mississippi election officials have said that the vote went smoothly.
“McDaniel was understandably shell-shocked Tuesday,” writes Sam Hall in the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion Ledger. “His non-concession speech was red meat for his supporters, but it played poorly on the national scene where most were quickly agreeing that this election was over.”
That included groups such as FreedomWorks and the Senate Conservatives Fund. By Wednesday morning, even Senator Cruz, the conservative Texas firebrand, had congratulated “my colleague Thad.”
“As a student of history, I can say that when one goes out a gentleman or a lady, there is a residue of goodwill and they live to fight another day,” says John Gizzi, chief political correspondent of the conservative website Newsmax. “I fear that unless he comes out and embraces Thad by the weekend, Chris McDaniel will not get another opportunity."(continued)
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Good for him. Fight until the last dog dies.
I for one am tired of Democrats defrauding our electoral system.
Back in ‘60, JFK joked that his father scolded him not to buy a single more vote than necessary to win.
Later that year, election fraud in Chicago and precinct 13, Texas (LBJ) gave the Democrats a razor-thin win.
They cheated. Fight them. We know the GOP-e won’t.
Concern trolls.
This time around it would appear that the GOPe were the cheaters.
McDaniel should not concede until illegal repeat voting by democrats is resolved.
If that is resolved in Cochran’s favor, then McDaniel should support Cochran in general. Because then it was a legitimate election.
Harry Reid must be removed from majority leader, to decapitate Obummer’s last 2 years.
Never. Not after such dirty tricks and smears.
The GOPE needs to be burned down to the ashes so that something better can rise up.
bleeech...what they don’t understand is that he no longer wants a future in politics. He is so disgusted with what was done to him that he has said he is through.
The bottom line is McDaniel KNOWS the republicans will never want him so he’s not going down without a fight. Good for him!
I say risk it Chris.
‘Embrace Thad’???!??! He said McDaniel was the KKK!!
There is fraud, the election was stolen, we have proof. Yahoo can go screw themselves.
I’m going to work to take down Thad NO MATTER WHAT! Thad is SCUM!
NO HE SHOULD NOT SUPPORT COCHRAN!
Are you insane?! He ran an ad saying McDaniel was in the KKK for crying out loud!
What is wrong with these RINOs?
Hey, you’re still up. I’ve been out of pocket for hours. Did I miss anything big? Any fallout from the Hinds County Dem accusations about Pete Perry?
Not yet. things have been quiet. There was a stolen ID found at a polling station.
dirty tricks are part and parcel of American elections.You may be too young to remember Will Horton Ad.
Geebus. A stolen ID. It figures.
I’m in total agreement ... burn the GOP-e down to the ground. The folks in DC on the NRSC who raised money for that POS Cochran need to speak up and out - LOUDLY - right freeping now or they are as guilty as he is.
You don’t call someone a racist and a bunch of crap and expected the guy to support you.
see #34
I despise COchran for his dirty tricks.
My problem is I despise Harry Reid much more.
Willie Horton?! You think what happened in MS compares to Willie Horton? No, this was a scorched earth, go-for-broke, nothing-to-lose campaign by Cochran. He knew he was gonna lose if he didn’t shoot the moon.
Bull. Cochran = Reid
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