If Cochran is the candidate, vote for the Democrat!
I’m not a lawyer, but the move to put this in front of the state GOP Executive Committee is interesting. It forces the Mississippi GOP to either run McDaniel out of town and tell him to go pound sand or to admit what he has is valid. If it’s the former, he goes to court. If it becomes and actual trial, it doesn’t seem like they can withhold the registries because that’s part of the discovery - is it not? If there is a law binding in the state that Democrats cannot vote in both their primaries and in Republican primaries, then the registries would be evidence to prove the case either way, so it seems they would have to allow it only because there is a law in in the state barring crossover voting. If the GOP Executive Committee sides with McDaniel in that, yes, illegal crossover voting happened, then they admit their certified winner is a certified loser.
I wonder what face saving, no statement the Mississippi GOP Executive Committee will give when McDaniel’s case appears in front of them? :)
Chris Run as a write in candidate...
I have no doubt that more actual Republicans (and certainly more conservatives) voted for McDaniel than for Cochran. But going into a court and asking the judge to overturn a certified election result based on post-election polling and mathematical regressions?!?! Never gonna happen.
Mississippi ping
Chris McDaniel press conference PING
I hope the GOPe is proud of their corrupt actions.
I suspect Cochran stole the election, but Democrats voting for a candidate in the primary whom they’ll vote against in the general is not illegal. Having voted Democrat in the primary and then in the Republican runoff is, as I understand it, illegal. Trying to make the case with just those who say they’ll vote Democrat in the general seems to suggest they don’t have an actual case within the constraints of the laws.