Posted on 01/20/2014 10:40:47 AM PST by onyx
"I am running primarily because of [Cochran’s] inability to follow constitutional constraints — on spending, on sovereignty, and other major issues," McDaniel told Newsmax, citing the senator's vote last year to re-open the government with a resolution that included funding Obamacare.
Although more Republican senators supported the measure than opposed it, McDaniel said that he "would have stood with" GOP Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania "who voted no, and fought that fight."
With less than five months to go before the June 3 Republican U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi, recent polls of likely GOP voters show McDaniel within striking distance of Cochran, who, is the second most senior Republican in the Senate.
As Newsmax reported in December, a Gravis Poll conducted with the conservative website Human Events showed startling results: McDaniel and Cochran in a tie, with 40 percent each.
This poll came less than a month after a Public Policy Polling survey found Cochran, 76, leading McDaniel by an unimpressive margin of 44 percent to 38 percent among likely primary voters, with PPP saying "much of that lead is attributable to his higher name recognition."
Based on these results, the 41-year-old McDaniel is in the strongest position of any of the five insurgents running in primaries to unseat Republican senators in 2014.
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Yeeeeehiiiiiiiii! Thank you so very much!
Questions about Mississippi election laws for those that know.
Does MS have a “sore loser” law?
Does MS have open primaries?
Does MS have a runoff format in primaries?
The same with Georgia’s senators and governors. When we wrested control from Democrats I celebrated, then it turned out that Democrats just followed the wave and changed their party affiliation but not their corrupt good ol’boy ways.
Fortunately, Chambliss isn’t running this year. Maybe, he felt the heat and thought a TEA party primary candidate might take him down.
All of these career politicians-dem and Repub need to be voted out ASAP. I’m voting against all. Time for new conservatives that are true conservatives.
Rally Tea Party!
When are we starting the rallies again for real? It was so great in 2008 and since then the Tea Party has been quiet except as individuals. I know we don’t have a leader and don’t want one but I just remember the excitement of 2008.
The old fossils are just as responsible for the state our country is in as the liberal democrats.
I concur!
God bless and keep you.
Mc Daniel sounds like real deal....go for it Mississippi
Thank you so much!
He is the real deal!
Great picture of our next Senator, and you are a beautiful woman! (I’m an old married lady, shame that in these days that qualifier is necessary!) I’ll show that pic to the menfolk in my family, just seeing you with him will influence them to vote for McDaniel, lol.
Aw, thank you so much! I’m OLD, too and my chipped front tooth shows...yikes! I’m trying to save up to get that fixed...lol.
Chris is absolutely beyond whatever you imagine him. He’s articulate, knowledgeable on our Constitution just like Senator Mike Lee, and he is Mississippi-down-home friendly!
I promise everybody that he is totally honest and that he’s TEA Party conservative, and that he’s smarter than all of the RINOs put together.
He’ll make a great addition to the team of Cruz, Lee, Session and Rand Paul.
God bless and keep you, beautiful mrsmel.
Together, we can see to his election!!!
TYPO - that’s Sessions, Senator Jeff Sessions, Alabama.
I knew some McDaniels from McHenry MS, the family owned the only little store in McHenry, I wonder if there’s any relation? They were very nice people.
Who is that lovely looking lady in the picture. :)
I wonder? That would be interesting to learn!!
Hi sweet you.
Thank you so much!
Sarah Palin should be at Chris McDaniel’s side as she was for Ted Cruz.
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