If the establishment were serious they’d work out a way to get Wicker to step down for a few years and get Cochran to retire in 3.
No way are the Democrats going to vote for this guy. They saw this as a chance to nominate an unelectable, senile old man to run against their Democrat candidate.
More than one half of the Republicans are totally pissed off at the tactics of recruiting Democrats to cross over the primary.
They are not going to let this go. McDaniels will probably challenge the results of the Primary which will hurt all Republicans and a lot of McDaniels supporters simply will not vote for Thad in the general election and many may not bother to vote at all which will screw other republicans running