There is no way Cochran won this thing legitimately.
On what basis do you say this? If Cochran got democrats out ala Operation Chaos to vote for him to thwart the tea party candidate, you may not like it, but it’s “legitimate”.
Lying and spreading fear isn’t nice either but it’s a standard dirty trick used by all politicians.
The challenge would go this way:
Did the voter who voted in the runoff vote in the primary?
YES or NO?
If YES, did they vote for the Republican candidates? If not, they should have been excluded at the poll from doing so and could be challenged now as an illegitimate vote.
Very unlikely the black polling places policed any of this unless there was a Tea Party poll watcher there - and the RINOs were fighting against allowing poll watchers.
If NO, they can cross over (at least that’s what I’ve read) and vote Republican.
You’d have to find 5,000 cases where votes were cast improperly but... even then you don’t know who they actually voted for.
So you’d have to ask for a re-election?
It’d be a mess and courts don’t want to undo election results. Very low chance of success.
McDaniel, tough as it is, needs to concede and move on keeping the good will he’s built up.
If he fights, he’ll be a ‘sore loser give it a rest move on do what’s good for the state’ guy. Plus, the general is coming up.
There’s no ‘win’ at this point other than to move on.
Go after THE PARTY within the state. Take control of that and rewrite the sleazy open primary rules.
That's a false equivalency.