HATTIESBURG, Mississippi–The Club For Growth, the biggest-spending conservative group on behalf of Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel, is calling on six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) to drop out of the GOP Senate primary here rather than continue into a
HATTIESBURG, Mississippi –With final votes still being counted, Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel is poised to force a runoff against 42-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the GOP primary here, likely prompting a three-week dash to the finish
JACKSON, Mississippi–Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) made his last pitch to voters early Monday afternoon at a campaign rally with some of his most influential supporters by his side, telling an audience of 250 here that his reelection could be “Mississippi’s
JACKSON, Mississippi — Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) was listed as a speaker at a campaign rally for Sen. Thad Cochran today but will instead be in Washington, D.C. for a relatively routine and non-controversial vote, his spokesman said. An advisory
Citizens United President David Bossie said six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) represents an ossifying establishment that just wants to manage America’s decline while challenger and conservative state Senator Chris McDaniel is a “change agent” that seeks to reverse it.
Friday night at campaign rally in Ellisville, MS, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) endorsed State Sen. Chris McDaniel over his Republican incumbent opponent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), who is running for his seventh term. Palin said it was time to
BILOXI, Mississippi — When Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) goes on the record with reporters, it always seems to bring a surprise or two. This time, in an interview with veteran Washington Post reporter Dan Balz at a campaign stop, Cochran
ELLISVILLE, Mississippi — With only three days until the polls open for the GOP Senate primary here and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at his side, State Sen. Chris McDaniel vowed to fight President Barack Obama alongside Sens. Ted Cruz
HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) provided a new explanation for his refusal to debate his primary challenger that is sure to give fodder to critics who say that after six terms he feels entitled to his seat. “This
HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will campaign for Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel on Friday morning, the McDaniel campaign announced on Thursday. Palin, a Tea Party leader, endorsed McDaniel months ago and will be joining the
Breitbart News readers know that our own Matt Boyle has been the point-man when it comes to scooping up all the scoops in Mississippi around the Republican primary for U.S. Senate involving long-time incumbent Thad Cochran and his Tea Party-backed
JACKSON, Mississippi — The D.C. government is investigating whether Kay Webber, a longtime aide to Sen. Thad Cochran, properly registered her house for commercial uses, including renting out a basement apartment that Cochran lives in. Webber rents the apartment to
Sen. Thad Cochran has been hard to access in the last stretch of his campaign against state Senator Chris McDaniel. For example, he played an elaborate game of “bait and switch” with a respected CNN reporter to avoid an interview.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin urges voters in Mississippi to “send a message” to Washington, D.C.’s permanent political class in a new radio ad for conservative Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel just days before Tuesday’s GOP primary. Palin says GOP
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has endorsed state Sen. Chris McDaniel over Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the Mississippi GOP primary next Tuesday. The endorsement from Santorum–a 2012 GOP presidential candidate who almost beat Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination,
OLIVE BRANCH, Mississippi — Et tu, Jeppie? Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s brother Jeppie Barbour, the father of powerful political operatives Henry and Austin Barbour, endorsed state Sen. Chris McDaniel in the GOP Senate primary over longtime incumbent Sen. Thad
On his Tuesday radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin took on the controversy surrounding Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and the allegations that his opponent, Republican senatorial hopeful State Sen. Chris McDaniel’s campaign was implicated in a rogue operative taking images
SOUTHAVEN, Mississippi — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) pulled the old “bait-and-switch” to avoid a televised CNN interview, reporter Dana Bash says. Bash tried to interview Cochran for CNN at a Memorial Day event in Vicksburg, MS, but Cochran dodged the
MADISON, Mississippi–Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) told the Associated Press that if he’s re-elected, he plans to serve the full six years of what would be his seventh term in the U.S. Senate. “I sure hope, if I am alive and
Sen. Thad Cochran’s longtime executive assistant was listed as being part of a “spouse group” and photographed participating in recreational events for senators’ spouses on a taxpayer-funded trip in 2004 to South America. In captions to photos posted online by
JACKSON, Mississippi — State Sen. Chris McDaniel told Breitbart News Sunday host Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, that “courage” is needed in Washington to fight the national debt and change the direction of the country. “I
JACKSON, Mississippi — Dr. Milton Wolf, the conservative primary challenger to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), is calling on Roberts to publicly denounce his U.S. Senate colleague, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), for bringing his executive assistant, Kay Webber, on 33 taxpayer-funded
JACKSON, Mississippi–It’s the Tea Party’s biggest test in 2014: can the movement knock down an establishment Republican whose name in and of itself is an institution in the state he’s represented for 42 years? Ten days out from the election,
Two more arrests were made Thursday in the case of the crazed blogger, Clayton Thomas Kelly, who allegedly illegally entered the nursing home occupied by Rose Cochran, wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), and photographed her. The arrests, according to The Clarion-Ledger, were
