Hillary Clinton’s read on the Mississippi Senate race is this: “expand your base.”
The former secretary of State on Monday reportedly weighed in on the outcome of the bloody Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Mississippi where incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) defeated state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) in a runoff election. Cochran, after the primary went to a runoff, sought out the support of Democratic and black voters.
Hillary says Cochran Sen runoff was of “major historical importance because the Republican Party of Mississippi expanded its base.”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 30, 2014
Hillary on #MSSen, salting the Tea Party’s wound: “There’s a lesson in there. Expand your base. Get out of your comfort zone.”
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) June 30, 2014
McDaniel has yet to concede the race and has claimed that Cochran won due to “illegal” votes.
with all due respect Mrs Clinton but black voters didn’t become part of any non-existing “expansion” of the Republican party but they voted for the less shitty opponent.An old racist arsehole against a David Duke type
The GOP is constantly expanding its base. There are old people going senile and forgetting
which box to check off everyday.
Oh please Hillary, go away for the next 6 months and work on your game. This is one of the dumbest analysis possible. Yes Democrats, take a lesson from Mississippi and start appealing to Tea Party bigots.
Um, that’s not what she said. She’s saying that the G.O.P. can’t survive unless it expands its base.
But it’s still a flawed analysis. The G.O.P. can’t expand its base. If it moves towards the center, the RWNJ’s revolt, and either put up their own looney tune candidate, or they sit on their hands and don’t turn out to vote. If it stays well and truly on the right-wing fringe, it loses the independents. I don’t see how the Republicans can put together a winning combination, beyond their current strategy of relying on gerrymandering and voter suppression.
for some reason many white americans seem to have the impression that the african americans who voted for cochran is s d sign that African Americans are ready to vote for the GOP. no, they are not. the black voters in missippi voted for cochran because he was the lessor of two evils.
that is all. the gop have made it perfectly clear the prefet heterosexual, male wasp. others need not apply.