
Fending off persistent questions about his residency status, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) noted in a radio interview last week that “my kids went to school” in Dodge City, Kansas, as a means of demonstrating his ties to the state he
by Matthew Boyle10 Jul 2014, 6:40 PM PST0

Mississippi GOP chairman Joe Nosef issued a statement Thursday in response to the latest legal actions from True The Vote, saying he plans to target the election integrity organization and its lawsuit’s various Mississippi voter plaintiffs with legal action. Nosef
by Matthew Boyle10 Jul 2014, 3:49 PM PST0

Catherine Engelbrecht – the founder of True The Vote and a victim of targeting by President Obama’s IRS, other agencies, and Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) – compared Mississippi’s GOP chairman Joe Nosef to the leading Obama administration scandal players. “Joe Nosef
by Matthew Boyle9 Jul 2014, 8:04 PM PST0

Sen. Thad Cochran’s campaign manager, Kirk Sims, has been replaced by his state director Brad Davis, according to a GOP source close to the campaign. The source, who has first-hand knowledge of the information from speaking to campaign officials, also
by Matthew Boyle9 Jul 2014, 6:01 PM PST0

National conservative election integrity organization True The Vote has asked a federal judge to issue a restraining order against the Mississippi Republican Party, alleging that the state GOP may be engaged in the destruction of evidence of alleged voter fraud
by Matthew Boyle9 Jul 2014, 5:38 PM PST0

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) told Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) that he may be the next victim of the anti-incumbent Tea Party mood sweeping America with the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier this year, Politico’s Manu Raju reports.
by Matthew Boyle9 Jul 2014, 1:34 PM PST0

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) literally got lost on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, The Hill reports. Cochran accidentally, while speaking with The Hill‘s Cameron Joseph, went to the Senate Democrats’ luncheon instead of the Senate Republicans’ luncheon. “Cochran, while talking with
by Matthew Boyle8 Jul 2014, 6:09 PM PST0

The scandal surrounding Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) roared back to life late Monday evening with a new report from the Washington Post in which the senator’s attorney accuses the Cuban government of planting negative stories
by Matthew Boyle8 Jul 2014, 2:17 PM PST0

State Sen. Chris McDaniel is offering fifteen $1,000 cash rewards to up to fifteen people who can come up with evidence that leads to an arrest and conviction of anyone involved in committing voter fraud in Mississippi’s GOP primary runoff.
by Matthew Boyle3 Jul 2014, 5:59 PM PST0

Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) top campaign operatives hung up on numerous members of the national media after a press conference call Wednesday. The call was intended to rebut state Sen. Chris McDaniel’s campaign’s allegations of voter fraud in Mississippi’s GOP
by Matthew Boyle2 Jul 2014, 3:53 PM PST0

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has asked a pro-Thad Cochran Super PAC, called Mississippi Conservatives, to provide additional information about what the newspaper Roll Call said “appears to be campaign finance violations.” At issue are last-minute expenditures made by the
by Matthew Boyle2 Jul 2014, 1:12 PM PST0

An anonymous staffer for Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) campaign ripped into his conservative opponent, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, for challenging the election results, calling McDaniel a “phony.” “The guy is basically Joel Osteen,” the Cochran campaign staffer, described as a
by Matthew Boyle2 Jul 2014, 12:01 PM PST0

State Sen. Chris McDaniel’s campaign told Breitbart News that the conservative firebrand is already halfway to finding enough allegedly ineligible votes counted to launch a legitimate challenge to the results of last Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff against incumbent Sen. Thad
by Matthew Boyle1 Jul 2014, 7:41 PM PST0

Conservative election integrity organization True The Vote filed suit in federal court Tuesday against Mississippi’s Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and the Mississippi Republican Party, asking a judge for an immediate injunction against them so that the election material from
by Matthew Boyle1 Jul 2014, 1:32 PM PST0

A black Mississippi pastor has emerged to claim Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) campaign paid “thousands” of Democrats $15 each to vote in the June 24 GOP runoff – and that he was part of the scheme. Rev. Stevie Fielder, an
by Matthew Boyle30 Jun 2014, 8:42 PM PST0

Jenny Beth Martin, chair of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, is calling on Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus to intervene in the Mississippi Senate race over incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran’s reliance on Democratic voters to prevail in
by Matthew Boyle27 Jun 2014, 5:54 PM PST0

Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel is projecting confidence about his campaign’s review of ballots cast in a runoff election he narrowly lost to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran Tuesday ahead of a planned legal challenge to the election results. The campaign
by Matthew Boyle27 Jun 2014, 10:14 AM PST0

Mississippi Tea Party leader and attorney Mark Mayfield, one of the four people arrested in connection with the photographing of Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife at an Oxford nursing home, has committed suicide, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. “Sources have confirmed that
by Matthew Boyle27 Jun 2014, 9:58 AM PST0

HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — State Sen. Chris McDaniel will challenge the results of the Tuesday runoff election, in which 41-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran won by about 6,400 votes, McDaniel announced to a room of supporters here at his victory party
by Matthew Boyle24 Jun 2014, 11:44 PM PST0

HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) survived the most intense challenge he’s ever faced in his 41-year political career, winning a runoff against conservative state Sen. Chris McDaniel. The Associated Press called the race for Cochran, who is up
by Matthew Boyle24 Jun 2014, 8:11 PM PST0

BILOXI, Mississippi — Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), a 2012 presidential candidate and one of state Sen. Chris McDaniel’s big name endorsers over Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), told Breitbart News in a phone interview that he thinks the Washington, D.C.,
by Matthew Boyle23 Jun 2014, 2:51 PM PST0

BILOXI, Mississippi — A staffer for Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) re-election campaign was fired after he was arrested and accused by police of stealing campaign signs for Cochran’s primary opponent, state senator Chris McDaniel. Lee Ellis Blair, a member of
by Matthew Boyle23 Jun 2014, 6:54 AM PST0

BILOXI, Mississippi — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was scheduled to appear at a campaign event at the airport here in south Mississippi for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) on Sunday evening, but wasn’t able to attend. But even though McCain wasn’t
by Matthew Boyle22 Jun 2014, 7:49 PM PST0

JACKSON, Mississippi — When a super PAC supporting Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) came under scrutiny for receiving what appeared to be an unsecured loan for $250,000, the bank that issued the loan came to Cochran’s rescue, publishing a high-profile letter
by Matthew Boyle22 Jun 2014, 5:52 PM PST0

PEARL, Mississippi — A new poll shows that state Sen. Chris McDaniel has surged even further ahead in the final days of his GOP primary runoff against Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), in what has become one of the most epic
by Matthew Boyle21 Jun 2014, 12:31 PM PST0