Posted on 05/21/2014 5:35:28 AM PDT by cotton1706
Supporters of Sen. Thad Cochran are breathing easier in the wake of a scandal that has engulfed his Republican challenger two weeks before Mississippi's June 3 GOP primary.
While state Sen. Chris McDaniel's support among the Tea Party is holding strong, he has struggled amid reports that his campaign might have connections to a conservative activist who illegally took photos of Cochran's wife, who suffers from dementia and is in a nursing home.
Cochran supporters say that is hurting him among two crucial voting blocs: undecideds and mainstream Republicans open to a change.
“I think it’s clear that Sen. Cochran is going to prevail, and this certainly is going to be in a lot of people’s minds that were considering — maybe were undecided,” Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Miss., told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday. “You have to say it would hurt a challenger when this comes out. “
Harper, like virtually the entirety of the Magnolia State Republican establishment, is supporting Cochran.
Heading into the final two weeks of the primary, Cochran supporters were concerned. They maintained optimism that the six-term senator would win but conceded privately that the race with McDaniel was tightening.
But the dynamic of the campaign, previously focused on whether Cochran would become the first GOP incumbent of the 2014 cycle to be ousted by a Tea Party challenge, was completely upended after news of the scandal broke Saturday morning.
Since then, McDaniel has been under siege by television and radio news throughout Mississippi, particularly in the central and southern counties of the state that are considered battlegrounds for Republican votes.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Thad, go take care of your wife. Bye
Anyone know how they’re smearing McDaniel?
And there you have it. This has NOTHING to do with this race. This is complete proof that this entire story is a coordinated Cochran campaign smear on McDaniel ...
Sick. Sick. Sick. Out of desperation COCHRAN'S CAMPAIGN is using sympathy for his disabled wife to prop him up in the polls by smearing McDaniel. This stupid blogger photographer is as much a supporter of McDaniel as Kathy Bates was of James Caan in Misery ...
As instructed to by the Barbour Machine, who clearly has coordinated this desperate attack and siege since they were losing to McDaniel ...
“a conservative activist who illegally took photos of Cochran’s wife”
Haley Barbour incognito?
proof that this entire story is a coordinated Cochran campaign smear on McDaniel ..
....I’d say this has Haley’s K street fingerprints all over it ... the GopeeE gonna make sure our hicks in Missisip vote for the chosen machine candidate, pass the blackeye’d peas Maa.....
ymmv
ping
We got called by no fewer than THREE different polling firms on Monday night. We don’t do polls (hubby’s decision) but it points to the issues at hand.
“We got called by no fewer than THREE different polling firms on Monday night. We don’t do polls (hubby’s decision) but it points to the issues at hand.”
So basically, they’re trying to tell if Cochran is now safe for reelection, if the scandal hurt McDaniel.
What do you think of it, since you’re there?
Cochran’s in like flynn.
The local news has tried and convicted mcdaniel personally of this. And beginning Sat night too.
The fact that the cochran campaign didn’t see fit to even alert the police to the incident until AFTER mcdaniel polled ahead is concerning to people that hear it. Unfortunately they’re not hearing it from any MSM.
In situations like this, those who live in these states, should use their facebook pages to post the truth of what is going on. You don’t really think the MSM is going to tell the truth do you? Not on your life - so its up to the grassroots to do their job for them,.
Well, I’m going in to make a donation to McDaniel’s campaign and would encourage anyone else who can do that to do so.
I’d also encourage any Mississippi residents to volunteer to help out.
http://www.senateconservatives.com/site/endorsements
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