Posted on 06/26/2014 9:53:15 PM PDT by Viennacon
Chris McDaniel, the Republican candidate in last Tuesday’s GOP primary that fell just shy of defeating long-time incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), reacted to the outcome.
McDaniel laid out his Republican credentials and questioned why his state’s Republican Party had gone to such lengths to for Cochran.
“It was shocking,” McDaniel said. “I’m a two-term state senator. I’ve been a Republican since I was 13-years old. I’ve paid my dues. I’ve gone door to door. I’ve given money. I considered these men and woman to be my friends and colleagues. But desperation and the quest for power pushed them somewhat over the edge. And Tuesday evening the Republican primary in Mississippi was not decided by Republican voters. It was decided by 35,000-40,000 Democrats. That’s unprecedented, extraordinarily unusual.”
He also claimed he had evidence of more than 1,000 voting irregularities in just one country and pointed to the desperate tactics Cochran employed to get Democrats out to vote for him.
“It’s not so much a recount,” McDaniel continued. “We’re looking to the issue of whether or not people who participated in if June 3 Democrat Primary crossed over into the Republican Primary this Tuesday night. We’ve found more than 1,000 examples of that in one county alone. So, we’ve found widespread irregularities of ineligible voters. They should not have been there in the first place. And they were pushed there. This is what's shocking, Sean. They were pushed there be an overt action, an aggressive action on the part of Sen. Cochran’s campaign that was filled with race-baiting, lies, distortions. He literally ran the latter three weeks on food stamps. He ran on voter suppression and he ran on pork. Mississippi is a conservative state and one would think that our party was a conservative party. This proves otherwise.”
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The way this was done was truly underhanded and disgusting. The clowns who engineered this deserve to go down in the general. They..not McDaniel will be responsible for losing this Senate seat. There is NO way if I were in Mississippi would I be able to cast a vote for Cochran. This has got to stop.. The VA governors race is another example. They totally screwed Cuccinelli.. we could have had another Republican Governor. McDaniel must fight this with everything he’s got
Call in the Viking Kitties. Boo Boo just doesn`t get it, but we get Boo Boo`s doo doo.
He can't vote for Cochran because he doesn't live in Mississippi so the words are hollow.
Which is why I think GOPe is either working with the Dems or such selfish pigs they don't care about a majority as long as they keep their seat/power
I tend to go with #1 because they can't be that stupid. They've come out, called the Tea Party names, spent millions against grassroots and essentially declared war on conservatives knowing it's more than half their base. Can anyone explain to me why they'd do that if they actually wanted a majority?
Republican is a meaningless word. I oppose liberals and support conservatives.
The fraud occurred when the poll workers allowed people who had voted in the democrat primary to vote in the republican runoff.
That was illegal. The voters may have been completely eligible, but they can’t vote in both.
The GOP-e has declared war on the tea party.
Then how on earth is it possible that the names on the IDs were not checked against a list of those who voted in the Dem Primary?
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