2018 Primary Elections, June 5: Battle begins for both MS US Senate seats

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[Yosemitest]

This is an EXCERPT.

Mississippi voters – a few of them anyway – will cast their ballots Tuesday, June 5, in the Democratic and Republican 2018 primary elections.

The race for Wicker’s Senate seat

... Wicker faces a challenge from Richard Boyanton, a businessman from Diamondhead, Hancock County, on the Gulf Coast. ProPublica says Boyanton has raised $60,000 for his campaign.

If Wicker is re-nominated as expected, the November general election will pit him against one of the six Democrats whose names will be on the ballot in this Tuesday’s primary. ...

McDaniel dropped his Republican primary challenge to Wicker and is instead running in the November open election for Mississippi’s other U.S. Senate position. ...

The race for Congressional seats

Congressman Trent Kelly, who has represented the First Congressional District since winning a special election in June, 2015, has no Republican challenger.
He has reportedly spent $349,000 on his re-election campaign and still has at least $120,000 in his campaign fund.

Kelly serves on the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives.
He is graduate of Ole Miss Law School and previously served as the District Attorney of Mississippi’s First Circuit Court District.
He holds a Master’s Degree from the U.S. Army War College.
Kelly has had three combat commands in the Middle East since 2005, and has been awarded two Bronze Stars.
He was promoted to Brigadier-General in the Mississippi Army National Guard early this year. ...

Only in Mississippi’s Third Congressional District, where Congressman Gregg Harper is not running for a sixth term, are there any intense contests Tuesday.
Two Democrats, six Republicans and one Reform Party candidate are vying to replace Harper.
The Third District Congressional seat has been occupied by a Republican since Democrat G. V. “Sonny” Montgomery retired after 15 terms in 1996. ...

The November election to fill Cochran’s Senate seat likely to draw more interest

As noted above, State Senator Chris McDaniel dropped out of the Republican primary race against Wicker, and instead is running in the November open election for the Senate seat vacated by Senator Thad Cochran.
Cochran resigned this spring because of poor health, after nearly 40 years in the Senate. Prior to his Senate service, Cochran had served six years representing Mississippi’s Fourth Congressional District in the U. S. House of Representatives.

McDaniel challenged Cochran for his Senate seat in the 2014 Republican primary.
Known as a “Tea Party” Republican, McDaniel got slightly more votes than Cochran in the first Republican primary in 2014, but Cochran edged him out in a run-off, 51% to 49%.
McDaniel then challenged the result, claiming many Democrats had voted in the run-off election.
The challenged forced an examination of voting records in Union and many other Mississippi counties.
The Mississippi Supreme Court finally ruled that Cochran had lawfully won the nomination.
McDaniel is one of three candidates on the ballot for the non-partisan November election to replace Cochran.
McDaniel, whose bitter 2014 challenge to Cochran offended many Mississippi Republican voters, was said earlier to be having trouble raising money for his Senate race.

After at least two more prominent Republicans had reportedly refused a temporary appointment to fill Cochran’s Senate seat, Governor Phil Bryant appointed Cindy Hyde-Smith, a two-term Republican Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner, to the Senate.
Hyde-Smith is running in the November non-partisan election to serve the last two years of Cochran’s term. ...

Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy, is the third candidate in the non-partisan election to replace Cochran.
Espy was elected as a Democrat to four terms in Congress, representing Mississippi’s Second Congressional District, but he crossed party lines to endorse the re-election of Republican Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour in 2007.
He was appointed Agriculture Secretary by President Bill Clinton. However, Clinton’s Justice Department indicted Espy in 1997, charging him with 70 counts of receiving improper gifts such as sport tickets and hotel accommodations. ...

Espy, Hyde-Smith and McDaniel are the only candidates on the November non-partisan ballot for the open Senate seat. It is widely anticipated that a run-off election may be necessary to settle that race.

[Yosemitest]

Chris McDaniel will get my vote in November.
And Richard Warren Boyanton got my vote tonight against RINO Roger F. Wicker, who has voted against Trump's agenda at every turn.
Here's a link to the Mississippi Sample Ballot and here's a link to Ballotpedia.org's United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, 2018 .

Michael Guest got my vote tonight for the US House of Representatives 3rd Congressional District.
Let's all pray that WICKER GOES DOWN IN FLAMES !

[Sybeck1]

I voted Boyatan too

[Yosemitest]

It’ll probably be late tonight before we get any results.

[McGavin999]

When do they start reporting the votes?

[deport]

You’ll probably start hearing some before long.

Polls in Alabama, Mississippi, New Jersey and South Dakota
closed first, at 8 p.m. Eastern.

[McGavin999]

Thanks deport

[clintonh8r]

Is there a live thread for results?

[Theodore R.]

Wicker is a cousin of the late Fred Thompson, whom some in TN thought was “conservative”.

[Yosemitest]

When Wicker started telling lies about McDaniel in 2014 and getting the false race card out for the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS", Wicker really made a lot of Mississippians very angry !
The "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" will pour all they can into the November Race to defeat McDaniel.
So we fight against the RINOS, and vote for CHRIS McDANIEL !

[Theodore R.]

I hope conservatives in MS can do something, but I don’t think there are enough of them to make much difference.

[Yosemitest]

The "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" want RINO Wicker to win in the General Election, so he can retire right after the election, and then the MS Governor can appoint another "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN".
Wicker has been nothing but a sellout to Mississippi !

[Yosemitest]

Also, when I was at the voting polls today, there were several old women who were shocked when I told them that I would vote AGAINST Wicker.
Thy probably haven't looked at Wicker's voting record since they first voted him into office back in 1987.

[Kenny]

Thanks for this thread.

[Yosemitest]

My pleasure.
But I'm angry with my Mississippian voters who were too lazy to review Wicker's voting record,
and didn't notice that Wicker voted against Trump s agenda, most of the time.
Grrrrrrrr...