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President before he was elected, support him now, will continue to support him after the primary, and most importantly i will support him after i am elected. the same cannot be said about mr. helder. if mr. bannon chooses to be with me, he can. danny is saying this isnt about president trump, isnt about wannon. >> in arizona, open seat, the flake, the republican is retiring, mcsally, the congresswoman, the establishment choice, kelly ward was shaping up to be the bannon pick. kelly ward out ther...

No, similar statement. mississippi, roger wicker, incumbent republican senator, looks like he may be challenged by chris mcdaniel. is mcdaniel out there saying, yeah, bannons got a point? maybe we should worry about trump? no, its all about sporting trump, supporting the president. and these were all the places weve been looking at steve bannon potentially backing candidates, potentially backing insurgentsies this spring, in the spring of 2018. right now, you saw it today, somebody who put out a...

I was always the most embarrassed at the beginning when people would see that. >> martha: this is mcdaniel. "unfortunate that michelle would disregard contributions of conservative women and people of all backgrounds with one false accusation." gianno? >> we had the most inclusive stage of anyone talking about the republican side. ben carson, ted cruz, marco rubio. the democrats didnt offer that whatsoever. >> martha: carly fiorina. wendy, what do you think? >> i think the fact that gianno can n...

>> thats the big point. when you heard mcdaniel say -- he said it outright, he said so much for principle. these folks reached across the aisle again. love it. just open about the fact that for him, for tea party folks, principle equates never compromising or reaching across the aisle. >> thats what happened in 2010. thats what happened some in 2012. thats what many tea party -- thats what many voters who vote in tea party candidates, thats what they dont, they dont want compromise. they think t...

Mississippians have been proud of the fact. >> that dynamic just fundamentally changed. >> that changed and mcdaniel is riding that. well see. the structure of the race is such that he ought to be able to pull this out, but you dont know -- >> depending on who votes. >> thats right. >> i want to use mississippi as a window. you were in new orleans over the weekend, republican leadership conference. hale barbour working hard for cochran said we need to focus on unity, not division, we need to foc...

Party victory still possible in this primary and what happens to the big race in november because of out? joining us now is sam hall, political columnist for the clarion ledger newspaper in jackson, mississippi. mr. hall, thank you very much for joining us. its good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> so one of the things thats been interesting to watch with this saga is the way it has sort of unfolded slowly. little details leaking out, drips and drabs, something new every day. should we r...

You know, conventional wisdom was always, if thad cochran wins a primary, he wins the general. if mcdaniel wins the primary, its a fight. mcdaniel is favor. i think that still holds true. but i think it really gives a lot more for democrats and the national left to take a looking at mississippi and say, "you know what, we have got a harder map to defend the senate. do we want to spend a little money in mississippi." half a million dollars in mississippi goes a long way. we have cheap media marke...

Country, not just to unseat the incumbent in a primary, but to go on to win the senate race in the fall. mississippi leans republican enough that that was a real possibility. this is the tea partys best chance of picking off a normal republican. well, the primary happens on tuesday. after all of this, is a tea party victory still possible in this primary and what happens to the big race in november because of out? joining us now is sam hall, political columnist for the clarion ledger newspaper i...

Was about three weeks before they went to the police and the arrests were made. the timeline they gave is, we learned about it, we researched it, we took it to the senator, the senator talked with his attorneys about it, to figure out which was the best venue, and then we went to the city of madison with it. they investigated, made an arrest, and thats the story. so i dont know if that takes three weeks or not, but mcdaniel and his supporters really hitting hard the fact that, hey, they sandbagg...

Is this being sort of professionally presented as a political op, or is it just the circumstances of the way this story has been sourced? >> well, thats mcdaniels chief complaint about this. the cochran campaign has said that they learned about it the day the video was put up, which was about three weeks before they went to the police and the arrests were made. the timeline they gave is, we learned about it, we researched it, we took it to the senator, the senator talked with his attorneys about...