Posted on 08/04/2014 2:41:52 PM PDT by cotton1706
Six weeks after the primary runoff election, Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel is launching his formal legal challenge of the election results, saying the evidence is so conclusive that he will be calling for courts to recognize him as the true victor of the race rather than calling for a new election.
“Chris McDaniel clearly, clearly won the Republican vote in the runoff,” McDaniel attorney Mitch Tyner said at a Monday press conference. “I say that very assuredly because that’s what the mathematics show. It’s not what I’m arguing. After the election, we did some post-election polling. We determined that of the Democrats that did cross over, 71 percent of them admitted they will not support the Republican in the general election. When you take those polling numbers and you go in and do the mathematical regressions, you can see that Chris McDaniel clearly won the runoff by 25,000 votes.”
“The short answer is we’re not asking for a new election,” Tyner continued. “We’re simply asking that the Republican Party recognize the person who won the runoff election.”
The campaign of incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), who was certified by the Mississippi Republican Party as having won the runoff by 7,667 votes on July 7, fired back, saying McDaniel had “made repeated and baseless allegations of fraud and misconduct” since the election.
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“Yes, let’s keep Mitch McConnell as Democrat with an (R) behind his name.”
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Interesting someone finally brings his name up. Let’s remember: McConnell is the one who was twisting arms in the Senate at a private meeting to raise $800,000 from sitting Senators to get Cochran over the hump in the runoff - after he actually LOST the primary to McDaniel!! Let that sink in. Sitting GOP Senators rallied to pony up almost a million bucks to back the LOSER in the GOP Primary for a runoff. The Senate GOP Leader wants to overturn the will of the Mississippi GOP voters. If that isn’t a clear illustration of just how corrupt politics has become, nothing is. It’s McConnell who is largely responsible for funneling that $800,000 to Haley Barbour for the expressed purpose of rounding up Democrat votes for Cochran. They all KNEW if they didn’t McDaniel would win the runoff going away. McConnell was trying to keep Conservatives out of the Senate; Barbour wanted his Mississippi pigeon in the Senate to keep his own lucrative lobbying gig going. Mitch McConnell is as responsible for the Cochran duplicity in Mississippi as anybody. In fact he could be said to be the center of it.
And speaking of McConnell, where is the Dear Leader and his positions on this whole border crisis? What has Dear Leader Mitch to say about the overflow of illegal immigrants invading the southern border? Seems Dear Leader Mitch is yet to be heard from considering he is the Dear Leader of the GOP Senate. If the McDaniel case gets to court, and there is enough light cast upon just what the McConnell-Barbour axis pulled off, I hope that some Super PAC runs ads in KY this fall about “Remember Thad”, and Dear Leader Mitch’s role in bringing it about. :)
This is nothing new. The GOP doesn’t want to represent us; they just want our money and votes!
Mississippi law says that a person who votes in a party's primary must support the winner of that primary in the general election. For many years (long before this election), the Missisippi Attorney General's office has issued opinions that that law is unenforceable and cannot be used to challenge voters. If McDaniel does press that issue, it will bite him back, because it also invalidates the votes of all of the McDaniel voters who don't intend to vote for Cochran if he is declared the winner of the primary.
I don’t care what the AG’s opinion is - if its a law on the books, then I would hope the courts would uphold it. Sounds like some of bammy’s way of doing things - pick and choose the laws you want to enforce and ignore those you don’t. Sounds like you are a Cochran supporter. McDaniel won this if the voting had been fair and it wasn’t.
If they uphold the law as written, they will have to throw out the votes of any McDaniel voters who don't intend to vote for Cochran if he's declared the winner.
Sounds like you are a Cochran supporter.
I'm not, but I'm a lawyer and I know a losing argument when I see one.
I understand your comment. It certainly needs to be determined based on actual and legal vote count; otherwise, future elections will be determined on predictive algorithms.
>> If they uphold the law as written, they will have to throw out the votes of any McDaniel voters who don’t intend to vote for Cochran if he’s declared the winner. <<
Looks to me like a devastating possibility — maybe not to the extent that Cochran’s lawyers could actually find thousands of such McDaniel voters, but rather that they could tie the proceedings endlessly in knots by subpoenaing one McDaniel voter after another.
>> I’m a lawyer and I know a losing argument when I see one <<
The McDaniel folks gotta be hoping that Cochran’s lawyers don’t see your FR post!
“He is an “old South” Democrat. “
No such thing anymore. Just Obama with a drawl.
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