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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon Aug 4, 2014, 06:32 PM Aug 2014

The Nastiest Election Fight In America Still Won't Die

Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel on Monday officially announced a legal challenge to the results of the June 24 Republican Senate primary runoff election, demanding the state's Republican Party declare him the true winner of the runoff election.

"They asked us to put up or shut up. Here we are. Here we are with the evidence," McDaniel said during a press conference outside the office of Mitch Tyner, the campaign's lawyer.

McDaniel's decision to fight the runoff results, while not ultimately surprising, comes nearly six weeks after he was defeated in the Republican primary runoff by incumbent GOP Sen. Thad Cochran. In the immediate aftermath of the election, McDaniel refused to concede and claimed Cochran had "stolen" the race through an unusual strategy of encouraging voters who don't typically participate in Republican primaries to come to the polls.

The Mississippi Republican Party certified the results of the runoff election on July 8, giving Cochran a margin of victory of more than 7,600 votes. Cochran's campaign has dismissed McDaniel's challenge and has made a point of focusing on the general election.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-mcdaniel-legal-challenge-ms-sen-thad-cochran-2014-8

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The Nastiest Election Fight In America Still Won't Die (Original Post) n2doc Aug 2014 OP
TEAparty hates Democrats and minorities so deeply, so ignorantly, that the very idea randys1 Aug 2014 #1
Hope he blows the re-election of Cochran in the process. Major Hogwash Aug 2014 #2
Doesn't even want a recount or a new election, truebluegreen Aug 2014 #3

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. TEAparty hates Democrats and minorities so deeply, so ignorantly, that the very idea
Mon Aug 4, 2014, 06:36 PM
Aug 2014

that a Democrat or Black person could have helped the opponent defeat them drives them completely insane.

The viscous, deep racism that defines the teaparty is in full swing here

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
2. Hope he blows the re-election of Cochran in the process.
Mon Aug 4, 2014, 06:52 PM
Aug 2014

I hope they take him more seriously in Mississippi than I do, because it doesn't appear that he has a snowball's chance in hell of being on the ballot in the general election now.

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