Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) warned this his primary challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) is an “extremist” and that it would be dangerous for McDaniel to win to the tight runoff of the Mississippi Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
“He’s an extremist,” Cochran said during a stop at the USM nursing school in Hattiesburg, MS on Tuesday, according to Mississippi’s WDAM. “It’d be dangerous to have somebody like him elected.”
With the runoff near the end of the month, Cochran, a top appropriator in Congress, said it was important to stress what McDaniel would not do if elected.
“We have a lot of federal initiatives, and if he’s going to cut the budgets, we’re going to be the state the suffers the most,” Cochran said. “To me, that’s unthinkable.”
Two recent polls (one from the Democratic Chism Strategies and one from the Republican-leaning National Strategic) have both shown McDaniel with a slight lead over Cochran in the runoff.
The runoff is on June 24.
Sen Cochran just gave the Dem candidate his first campaign add for the general election…“Even Sen Cochran thinks McDaniel is ‘a dangerous extremist’ that will leave MISS short changed.”
Too little, too late. Cochran rolled over months ago.
You don’t say. When did you discover this? Can we cut through the case and call him a breaking and entering domestic terrorist.
Dangerous extremist? Suck it up buttercup!
Yeah…he was never really committed to this race. There were even questions if he would even run. The way things have played out, he might as well have saved what little effort he has expended.
McDaniel getting indicted is the most probable path for victory for Cochran.