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The primary? that is the big question right now. that second senate seat will become vacant at the beginning of next month when thad cochran resignation becomes official. then it will be up to republican governor phil bryant to appoint a successor and now facing immense pressure within the state to head off the mcdaniel challenge by naming a strong conservative to the seat. perhaps it is bryant himself. we shall see. that is what mitch mcconnell would like. mcdaniel must figure that he has a bet...

Fraud. >> so sam, what is your understanding of the state of the evidence as we sit here tonight? >> well, we know that there are, you know, 2,000 to 3,000 votes that are cross-over votes, we feel like probably statewide. the number that they keep saying of irregular votes has risen all the way up to 5,000, and then ive heard reports today of as high as 6,000, 7,000. the attorney, mitch tynor, could not give us an exact number during the press conference. but to put it in perspective, these are ...

Ago, is pushing for another election in the states republican senate primary. mcdaniel narrowly beat cochran on june 3rd but because he failed to reach 50% of the vote, a runoff was held three weeks later. with a higher turnout and the help of apparently some african-american democrats, cochran managed to beat mcdaniel by over 7,000 votes. cochrans margin of victory and his strategy to court liberals has mcdaniel pushing for a third election. a lawyer for the mcdaniel campaign said this -- >> we...

Of this election other than with the mcdaniel people? are there any people who ended up going with cochran who are starting to kind of grumble, like maybe we shouldnt have done that? >> no, i havent heard any of that. you know, i think most people are just kind of tired of the election in general. its become quite the circus. we thought it was going to die down. we get crazy things that happen just about every day. so you wake and up wonder whats going to happen next. going back to what you were...

Only the republican vote, he should have won the primary. and hes just never wanted to come to terms with the fact that it was an open primary. and obviously it doesnt do great things for the image of the republican party that what they are objecting to for the most part are african-americans who crossed in to the republican primary. >> and sam, what are the democrats in mississippi making of this situation? what opportunities have they found in it, if any? >> well, ricky cull, whos the state pa...

Lost to thad cochran two weeks ago, is pushing for another election in the states republican senate primary. mcdaniel narrowly beat cochran on june 3rd but because he failed to reach 50% of the vote, a runoff was held three weeks later. with a higher turnout and the help of apparently some african-american democrats, cochran managed to beat mcdaniel by over 7,000 votes. cochrans margin of victory and his strategy to court liberals has mcdaniel pushing for a third election. a lawyer for the mcdan...

Voters in the june 3rd primary to more than 360,000 yesterday. and then to just show you the impact of african-american voters, heres hiennds county. they are 70% african-american. nearly 50% more voters turned out yesterday than they did three weeks ago in the republican primary. in the june 3rd primary, cochran beat mcdaniel by fewer than 6,000 votes. last night cochrans margin was nearly twice that at 11,000. in a race cochran won by 6,000 votes, thats pretty much your ball game right there, ...

Deep south state in a republican runoff. it is a heck of a -- >> in some sense it smacks of desperation. the voters will come to the polls, activist types that do support chris mcdaniel. if mccandle wins that runoff democrats have a chance in november. why if youre a democrat and mississippi voter would you come to the policy when there is a chance you can beat mcdaniel. >> cochrans forces seem to think they have a lit of maybe momentum this week. i think it is actually a jump ball at this point...

Money back to mississippi. a lot more than mcdaniel probably would. do democrats in mississippi throw cochran a life preserver now? do they head to the polls and vote for him because the alternative of actually having mcdaniel in the senate is just too unacceptable to them? or we ask this, do they get mischiefous? travis childers, within the past two weeks private democratic polling show that the partys norm nominee former representative travis childers would start statistically tied with mcdani...

That they need to turn out. and i think that in particular, the super pac thats been backing cochran will shift its focus to that. because its not necessarily that the turnout was lower than they needed it to be. its more that they didnt do as well in the places that they needed to do well. those that should have been strong for cochran werent. they need to fix that. >> what about this decision reported by cook today, that the karl rove crossroads group, one of the outside groups, anti-tea party...