Thad Cochran’s Future in Senate Remains in Limbo
Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) future in the Senate remains in limbo as his health continues to decline; many speculate that he will retire early next year.
Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) future in the Senate remains in limbo as his health continues to decline; many speculate that he will retire early next year.
Ryan Walters, author of the newly released book Remember Mississippi: How Chris McDaniel Exposed the GOP Establishment and Inspired a Revolution, told Breitbart Washington political editor Matt Boyle, host of Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM, that the 2014 Republican U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi set the stage for Donald Trump’s presidential victory in 2016.
Conservative Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel, a likely challenger to Republican establishment Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) in the 2018 U.S. Senate primary in the Magnolia State, told Breitbart News’s Washington political editor, Matt Boyle, host of Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM, that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is wrong to consider cutting a deal with Democrats to accept DACA on the promise of heightened border security.
Senator Thad Cochran “looked frail, pale, moved slowly and was soft spoken” in an off-camera interview at the Capitol on Thursday.
A four and a half decades-long career as a member of the Congress of the United States is coming to a humiliating and undignified end for 79-year-old Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS).
Brad White, Chief of Staff for Thad Cochran (R-MS), said that the senator “was provided [a wheelchair] at the Capitol in an abundance of caution, because he is recovering and because he has to go so far to get from place to place there.”
Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) has been part of former Governor Haley Barbour’s political machine for decades, a fact likely conservative Republican challenger Chris McDaniel is sure to highlight in the much anticipated rematch with that machine in 2018.
Concerns that Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) health problems are greater than his office previously indicated were confirmed by Politico’s Seung Min Kim on Monday morning.