In addition to the ballots cast, there are more than 19,000 absentee ballots that came in for the runoff and were significantly higher than for the first primary. The McDaniel camp strongly suspects there is substantial fraud in these absentee ballots and they have not yet begun to review them.
Cochran should resign because if it is proven that he is linked in any way to buying votes with walking around money, then he will be kicked out of Congress and I think that entails losing his pension.
True, that may be why there is this new floated news he will resign if another election is called. He may now be thinking of his pension over Haley’s interests.