FreedomWorks, the leading Tea Party pressure group, has endorsed the Mississippi Tea Party primary challenger who attended a recent Neo-Confederate conference and has other neo-Confederate ties. FreedomWorks called McDaniel “the clear choice for fiscal conservatives and lovers of liberty across the state of Mississippi.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, declares: “Unless the United States is engaged in hostilities against a country or there is an emergency need for this type of surveillance, I do not believe the United States should be collecting phone calls or emails of friendly presidents and prime ministers.”