In Senate primary race after Senate primary race, the tea party had to walk away with a losing hand. They seem to be hoping to get one final victory out of 2014: State Sen. Chris McDaniel in Mississippi as he challenges incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran.
Even as McDaniel hunkers down in light of ongoing questions about his campaign’s connections to a blogger who was arrested for photographing the wife of his opponent in the primary, tea party groups are pouring a fresh load of cash into the race in hopes that McDaniel will come out on top.
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that ForAmerica and Citizens United plan to start advertising to support McDaniel in his bid against Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS). According to federal filings, tea party groups supporting McDaniel have already spent about $2.4 million in Mississippi while pro-Cochran groups have spent about $1.8 million.
Brent Bozell, the head of ForAmerica, told the Post that his group is making a six-figure ad buy to help McDaniel through digital advertising.
Similarly, David Bossie, who runs Citizens United, said that his group would be spending $175,000 on statewide broadcast and cable advertisements.
Other prominent groups, like the Senate Conservatives Fund are sticking by McDaniel as well. In a recent email Matt Hoskins, the executive director of that group, listed the Mississippi GOP primary on June 3 as one of the chances grass roots conservatives had to elect a preferred candidate. Hoskins wrote:
The next big opportunity for the grassroots comes on June 3rd when the following four SCF-endorsed candidates have their primary elections:
Chris McDaniel (R-MS) — U.S. Senate
The Mississippi primary will take place on June 3.
Of course they are all in. The have nothing left. They have to.
Even of McRacist loses his primary, it’s not like his voters won’t still vote for Cochran.
Judging from the signs around here, it’ll be close. I have no idea what the actual polling looks like because near as I can tell, there’s no polling on it.
That doesn’t matter. What MATTERS is that McDaniel and the idea that government simply doesn’t work and thus no compromise is acceptable, is thrown out as useless.
It sounds backwards, but personally I’d love to see McDaniel win and Democrats run against HIM. It would really test the notion that Mississippi is a backwards state full of hopeless crackers that would vote for a kitchen table if the table said it hated ni(CLANG!) and old people and was a REPUBLICAN table.
I live here. In the general election, all the voters see is the ® after the name. Republican=White, and that’s what matters here.
How we have a Democrat for AG is something I’ll never quite figure out.
The Tea Party did get one win in Ben Sasse, but more than that they’ve won because they’ve pushed the establishment so far to the right that there’s almost no difference between the views of teabaggers and the establishment. It seems establishment really just means"the candidate least likely to say something so stupid or offensive they risk losing a perfectly winnable seat".