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Two major conservative groups are dropping more than half a million dollars into ad buys in Mississippi, two weeks ahead of the June 3 election, to give state Sen. Chris McDaniel an extra boost over six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran

Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), an ally of Speaker John Boehner, cruised to re-election on Tuesday in what originally was a contested primary against conservative attorney Bryan Smith. Simpson and his big business allies spent big bucks to stomp out Smith,

The personal attorney for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) offered little explanation late Monday for why nearly three weeks elapsed between when Cochran’s campaign initially learned a crazed blogger had broken into his wife’s residence and when he went to the

The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund and its powerful attorney Cleta Mitchell have refiled an updated complaint with the Federal Election Commission regarding an allegedly illegal bank loan a Mississippi bank gave to a Super PAC supporting the reelection of

A new poll from Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund shows that Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel has seven-point lead over 36-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS). The poll, conducted by pollster George Birnbaum of GEB International who surveyed 600

A new Citizens United Political Victory Fund poll shows that six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is slightly trailing his Tea Party challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel just a couple weeks from election day in Mississippi. The election is on

On Saturday, April 26, at 8:54am, Melanie Sojourner, campaign manager for Mississippi state senator Chris McDaniel’s primary challenge of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), sent an irate email. “Someone has created a video about Thad and Kay,” Sojourner wrote in the

Clayton Thomas Kelly, a 28-year-old man from Pearl, MS, snuck into the retirement home of Rose Cochran, the wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), to take secret photographs of her and post them online. Madison, MS, police arrested Kelly late

With a bitter primary campaign between Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel and incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) veering towards the gutter, McDaniel used a Thursday morning press conference to try to pull it back, embracing the reform platform of

The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund chairman Jenny Beth Martin is alleging a loan given to a super PAC backing Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the bitter Mississippi primary race was illegal, according to a complaint she filed with the

Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) re-election campaign asserts that questions about his extensive, taxpayer-funded travels with executive assistant Kay Webber are “sexist.” “This is sexist,” Cochran spokesman Jordan Russell told The Clarion-Ledger. “Why are they questioning her qualifications? All members of

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to defend taxpayer-funded travels of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and his executive assistant Kay Webber on Tuesday. “You’ll have to address those questions to Sen. Cochran,” McConnell replied when asked if he thought Cochran

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) suggested to National Public Radio (NPR) he would like to bring earmarks back to Congress. “I think earmarks have gotten a bad name,” Cochran told the national radio outlet for a piece it published on the

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) lives in the basement apartment in a house owned by his executive assistant, Kay Webber, which he has listed as his primary address on official forms. Now public records show Webber accompanied Cochran on dozens of

With the backdrop of a recent tornado outbreak that caused sever damage in Mississippi and Arkansas, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is criticizing his primary challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, over disaster aid. Pointing to a special session of the state

The GOP Senate primary in North Carolina Tuesday is the first real test of the battle between the Republican Establishment and the Tea Party of the 2014 election cycle, but the Establishmen’s pick, North Carolina state House Speaker Tillis, is

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) repeatedly listed a Washington, D.C. house owned by his executive assistant as his address on a series of official documents in recent years, including several of his statements of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission. Cochran

The godfather of Mississippi’s largest and most powerful industry – one that has longed push for more lenient immigration law’s to help provide cheap labor – is Sen. Thad Cochran’s fundraising chairman, the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro writes in a

Six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) told the Associated Press that he won’t debate his primary challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, because McDaniel is “trying to make me look bad by things he’s saying about my performance in the Senate.”

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) already twice said he didn’t know very much about the Tea Party, now he’s using the same line on a new immigration pledge that’s quickly gaining signers since it was released earlier this week. “I haven’t

Saying his victory “would send a shockwave through the incumbent class,” Talk radio host Laura Ingraham endorsed state senator Chris McDaniel Tuesday in his bid against incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran, citing his early adoption of a new anti-amnesty pledge. Monday,