26th Runoff News Today

Interview and said youve got to pick who youre going to hire and be grateful to have that trust. now we have to live that trust out and keep it. >> oklahoma congressman james lankford cleared the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff. hes the republican nominee in the race to fill the rest of senator tom coburns term. lankfords win was a defeat of sorts for sarah palin, ted cruz and the other conservative populist crowd who decided to parachute into oklahoma and campaign for t.w. shannon and wh...

Years later, pollution was still a problem. >> the chesapeake bay is fighting for survival. more than 100 major companies and sewage systems dump their waste into the scenic waters. runoff from surrounding farm fields feeds still more chemicals into the bay. >> last week the governors of maryland, pennsylvania, virginia and delaware all signed a new bay restoration agreement. its the fourth pact thats been signed in 31 years and now the federal effort to clean up the bay is under fire. 39 lawmak...

Nominees, travis childers on what is now an uphill fight against cochran. and republican james lankford and how he ended up crushing what turned out to be a mini tea party push in oklahoma. also this morning an nbc news exclusive with former president bill clinton as he tries to beat back the wealth of criticism that has been facing his better half on her book tour. good morning from washington, its wednesday, june 25th, 2014. lets get right to my first reads of the morning. isn in a reminde...

>> before this race ends, we have to be absolutely certain that the republican primary was won by republican voters. there is something a bit unusual about a republican primary thats decided by liberal democrats. >> you can tell mcdaniel is not ready to concede. according to our friends at smart politics, cochrans win marks only the third time that a second place mississippi u.s. senate primary finisher came back to win the runoff. the last time was 80 years ago, an incumbent in second and then ...

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>> that was actually john hickenlooper. we had a little video mess-up there. he was responding to a question about the idea that hes flip-flopped on the issue of guns. so that was his reaction to the beauprez win and obviously he says he is not a flip-flopper. and says that stuff caught on camera is something that, you know, is -- that he can work through. more good news for the gop establishment, in the oklahoma senate race support from senator ted cruz and former governor sarah palin could not...