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 Thad Cochran’s campaign manager, Kirk Sims, has been replaced by his state director Brad Davis, according to a GOP source close to the campaign.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
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
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) will host a “Thank You Reception” Tuesday for donors who forked over nearly a million dollars to help Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) defeat state Senator Chris McDaniel in a June 24 runoff. The event
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that the allegations of voter fraud in the Mississippi Senate runoff between Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel in an interview on Monday’s “Mark Levin Show.” “What the D.C. machine did was not try to grow
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After black voters helped Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran survive an intense Republican primary runoff against an insurgent conservative challenger, some civil rights leaders in the South want him to repay the favor. Their request? Cochran should
Earlier this year, the conventional wisdom was that the moderate establishment had taken control of the GOP back from the Tea Party and other “extremists.” With Dave Brat defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Chris McDaniel receiving the plurality
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican who lost a primary runoff election to Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran said Friday he plans to challenge the results. Chris McDaniel said his campaign found at least 5,000 irregularities in voting and that he will
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.
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
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
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
In an appearance on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, talk show host Dennis Prager along with Michael Meyers of the New York Civil Rights Coalition took on last week’s outcome of the race for the Mississippi Republican nomination
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” network correspondent Ainsley Earhardt unveiled one of the attack radio spots that aired on stations around the state including WMGO 1370 AM in Canton, MS. The spot urges listeners to participate in
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
Reverend Steve Fielder, a pastor at the First Union Missionary Baptist Church in Meridian, Mississippi, is accusing Senator Thad Cochran’s campaign of violating election laws by giving black Democratic voters cash in exchange for votes in the recent GOP runoff.
Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli argued that states along the Mexican border can and should use their National Guards and law enforcement to secure their borders in an interview on “The Laura Ingraham Show” on Tuesday. He stated that
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
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
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) blasted the tactics used by supporters of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) to win his primary against Chris McDaniel last week, calling them an “outrage,” and declaring Cochran a beneficiary of “illegality.” Gohmert rebutted those who argued
One week after traveling to Mississippi to do his utmost to help Senator Thad Cochran (R) beat Tea Party rival Chris McDaniel, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) talked about the strengths he saw in Cochran’s approach to campaigning. According to AZ
Nothing in life is free. And now that Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) was able to narrowly beat his Tea Party rival, due to thousands of black Democrats who crossed party lines to vote in the GOP primary runoff, his new
This is not the first time the corrupt national GOP power structure and the Mississippi Republican Party have betrayed conservatism. By now, the deeply questionable practices of the Thad Cochran campaign and his apparatchiks in Mississippi are known to all. Mysterious robo-calls, unaccounted
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
A Mississippi radio station aired an ad warning voters that the Tea Party would “take away” food stamps and other welfare benefits before the run-off between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran and his challenger, Chris McDaniel. Calling the run-off the most
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
On Thursday, Mississippi state Senator Chris McDaniel said he will not concede to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), because his campaign has already found more than 1,000 voters who illegally voted in Tuesday’s GOP runoff, which Cochran won by over
In an appearance on Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” former disgraced Clinton adviser Dick Morris, also formerly a Fox News contributor but now a host on 1210 AM “The Big Talker” in Philadelphia, said he would have no
On Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” State Sen. 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
Rev. Jesse Jackson praised the “beauty” of Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) victory over “Confederate” Chris McDaniel in an interview on CNN’s “Wolf” on Thursday. In a discussion on the progress of civil rights Jackson said that one of the problems
Sen. Ted Cruz reacted to a series of losses from Tea Party-endorsed candidates in the Senate, including Chris McDaniel’s narrow loss to Sen. Thad Cochran in Mississippi and T.W. Shannon’s loss to James Lankford in Oklahoma. In an emailed statement
Rep. Chuck Rangel (D-NY) argued that Mississippi voters made the right move by nominating Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) over Chris McDaniel in an interview on CNN’s “The Lead.” Rangel stated that he thought Cochran’s victory “makes a lot of sense
MSNBC host Alex Wagner and former RNC Chairman Michael Steele did not appear to be disappointed about Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) primary victory in a discussion on the Mississippi Republican runoff race on her Wednesday show. Wagner declared “the establishment
Columnist and American Spectator magazine senior editor John Fund argued that Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) supporters won using “dirty tactics” and “playing from Al Sharpton’s playbook” in an interview on Laura Ingraham’s Wednesday radio show. He pointed out that a
Are you a commodity, or an American? An economic unit, or a human being, a child of God, even? It’s good that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is asking these questions, because the elites in both parties already have their answers: They do,
This article originally appeared at Conservative HQ As CHQ Chairman Richard Viguerie has often said, every day there are millions of races between foxes and rabbits – sometimes a fox will win, otherwise there would be no foxes, but most
This article originally appeared in National Journal Sen. Thad Cochran’s narrow victory over Chris McDaniel in the Mississippi Senate runoff deprives Democrats of their argument that Republicans are beholden to the tea-party wing of their party. But it offers them
Pointing out that post-election challenges usual fail, one Tea Party leader, Judson Phillips is calling for Thad Cochran’s primary challenger, State Senator Chris McDaniel to run as a write-in candidate in the Fall. “The Republican Establishment thinks they have fought back an
Chris McDaniel may have refused to concede the Mississippi Senate primary without a challenge, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) appears to be moving on after the Tea Party suffered primary defeats last night. “I certainly congratulate my colleague, Thad,” Cruz
Politico’s James Hohmann has released his list of “takeaways” from Tuesday’s primaries, among which is the claim that Eric Cantor’s loss in Virginia earlier this month is “an outlier” in 2014. Leaving out Tea Party victories in places like Nebraska, or
As Tea Party challengers grappled with the stunning news that Sen. Thad Cochran had beaten the odds to win his primary against Chris McDaniel, Tennessee candidate for Senate Joe Carr vowed that the fight would continue. Carr specifically criticized the
