Let’s look at it analytically:
1. The GOPe took a drubbing in this week’s primaries.
2. Cochran is in a real horse race for the first time in a long time.
3. The past few days news cycles in the state have been full of Cochran taking his sweetie on overseas boondoggles on the public’s dime.
4. Many in the GOPe depend on Cochran’s reliable votes for any and all liberal funding schemes they need him to fund. If he loses, they are in danger of losing that reliable vote.
I’m not sure Cochran has the ability to do anything like this anymore. His handlers won’t even let him debate McDaniel. He’s pushing 80 for heavens sake. I would NOT put the GOPe above doing this though. Not. At. All. They HAVE to win this seat to maintain the status quo.
I'm sure he didn't do that or anything. He admitted he doesn't even know what the Tea Party is. He doesn't even read a paper. He probably doesn't know the current president of the U.S. He just does what lobbyists tell him, and he doesn't even bother to know what's going on.