From NBCNews.com
By the numbers, Tea Party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel lost Tuesday night’s runoff election to incumbent Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, but the conservative firebrand says he’s not giving up the fight yet.
“Now, it is our job to make sure the sanctity of the vote is upheld,” McDaniel said in a fiery speech – which did not include a concession – after the race was called. “Before this race ends, we have to be absolutely certain that the Republican primary was won by Republican voters.”
McDaniel and his backers objected to Cochran’s open courting of non-GOP voters, including the state’s sizable African American Democratic population. Party registration is not required to vote in primary elections in the state, and any voters who did not participate in the Democratic primary were eligible to vote in the GOP runoff.
Oklahoma Rep. James Lankford on Tuesday earned an outright victory in the race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Tom Coburn.
The Associated Press reported that Lankford broke the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff in the seven-person GOP primary field. He faced a serious challenge tea party backed T.W. Shannon, the former Oklahoma House Speaker and the only other Republican challenger able to somewhat keep pace with Lankford’s fundraising.
Coburn announced in January he would retire at the congressional session due to recurrence of prostate cancer.
Now ole Skanky is butthurt over this:
As we pointed out last week (see: http://t.co/y8T64iZQyR), there were several potentially illegal political games afoot in Mississippi to motivate Democrat voters to "switch" over to the GOP for a day to help save a 42 year Republican member of Congress. On top of that, millions of dollars from out of state liberal billionaires like Mike Bloomberg poured in at the last minute on that same incumbent’s behalf. You have to ask yourself why? When a primary election is lost fairly, I am all for unifying behind the victor and joining forces to fight in November. When an election is questionable, with potential legal violations, politics MUST be put aside and the irregularities MUST be fully investigated. Regardless of party, we owe it to voters and to democracy within our Republic. The integrity of the vote speaks directly to the integrity of those who serve and the trust we ask the American public to put in our institutions. I told Chris McDaniel last night that I stand with his effort to get to the bottom of this – he needs to know average, but tremendously concerned, citizens want to make sure the integrity of last night’s results in Mississippi are verified. Voting shenanigans never cease to amaze, but they had better cease altogether for the sake of ethical elections. And any GOP “architect” behind these abhorrent voting shenanigans should be ashamed of this Pyrrhic victory for the establishment. If we find out it's true that some of the characters alleged to have masterminded this Mississippi hijacking are the same ones who've tried to destroy other Republicans’ careers, they need to be taken to task and only be hired by unethical campaigns. Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us. And if any news organization ignores a free and fair elections issue like this, then whether left-leaning or center right, their silence will speak volumes.
You can read more about this issue from an article last week here:
http://www.breitbart.com/
You can read more about this issue from an article last week here:
http://www.breitbart.com/
Get over it Skanky. Chris McDaniel is a liar:
Records show conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel voted as a Democrat in the 2003 state primary.
McDaniel and others question the accuracy of the records and accuse Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a potential opponent, of using state resources for “opposition research” on McDaniel.
Hosemann denies this and said McDaniel is trying to deflect attention from his voting record.
McDaniel has said he was inspired as a teenager by Ronald Reagan to become a lifelong Republican. Republican Hosemann is thought by many to be waiting in the wings to run for the U.S. Senate seat, along with McDaniel, should incumbent Thad Cochran not seek re-election.
Computerized voting records kept by the secretary of state’s office show McDaniel voted in the statewide Democratic primary in 2003, and he appears to have not voted in some big Republican elections, including the 2008 GOP presidential/congressional primary.
Sarah had no problem with Rush Limbaugh imploring Republican voters to vote for Hillary during the 2008 primaries.
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