Chris is destroying any future chance he may have at a statewide or national office. Every Republican state official and 43 of the state’s 52 state senators endorsed Cochran. These people have long memories.
It looks like McDaniel would have won had it not been for the cheating, regardless of how many of the state’s pols supported Cochran, so I can’t see that they’d have much foundation for blacklisting McDaniel in the future.
In any case, the cheating here was so blatant, followed by an embarrassing chorus of black Dem voters congratulating themselves on having “elected” the GOP candidate, that I hate to think Mississippi’s politicians are so corrupt that they will fight to defend this.
So do Mississippi voters, I’ll not vote for any incumbent who supported thad who didn’t step forward and condemn the recruiting of democrats into our primary. I don’t know of any who did.
Sometimes you have to do the right thing regardless. If more politicians adopted that motto, we’d have more honest politicians and more honest elections.
If McDaniel does nothing, then it will embolden more Cochrans and Democrats to adopt the same strategy in future primaries.
Even if McDaniel is unsuccessful in the endeavor, it sends a message that people are taking notes and taking names and it’s going to be a lot harder to get away with these shenanigans in the future.