June 3rd Primary News Today

[ male announcer ] ask your doctor today if eliquis is right for you. time now for some tdr 2014 trail mix. heading south now to mississippi where the drama continues nearly three weeks after senator thad cochran defeated his tea party challenger, chris mcdaniel, in the states runoff election, mcdaniel still has not conceded the race, as his supporters continue to search for instances of illegal voting where democrats who didnt vote in the june 3rd primary then voted in the runoff election. se...

Primary where mississippi democrats gave me 74% of the total vote. ill be back asking for them again. chuck, as i travel around the state and listen, listen more than you talk, you know, and you learn a lot of things. a lot of families struggling in our state. president roosevelt spoke about the forgotten man in 1932. its amazing how that speech is still relevant today. i cant tell you how many people across our great state feel like they have just been forgotten. forgotten men, forgotten women ...

Primary moves forward. what does it say democrats can take away as a positive? >> thats a great question. there are not that many situations where you have an open primary, especially on the republican side. >> theyre there. >> and the democrats try to influence the colorado primary. republicans didnt succeed. im not sure theres grand strategic lessons. what is fascinating is the opposite a little bit. which is that, you know, the establishment, so to speak. the business wing of the gop is winni...

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, ...

the way to mississippi. todays vote will be a true test of whats more powerful, anti-establishment anger or senator thad cochrans muscular get out the vote machine. >> on these turn out days, turn out is important especially on these special elections is there a sense of how things, how people are fired up about this race? >> reporter: we got a sense at least looking at one particular precinct in ridgeland north of jackson the turn out was more brisk today than it was back on june 3rd. as we...

in many locations tonight we have fox team coverage on this election nightoxide cameron is oklahoma city where negative advertising may have backfired in the campaign to replace a retiring senator, but we begin with senior national correspondent john roberts who is in jackson, mississippi tonight, sight of perhaps the most bitterly contested race of the evening. >> reporter: for three weeks thad cochran has barn stormed the state the way he hasnt had to since he first won the state in 1978. ...

They should take time to do this after the election. i love juan and joe but either are voting republican. my sense is thank you for your talk but change your registration. >> i want to get your thoughts on what i think was an interesting piece about a race in california. carl demayo is democrats name and he is running in a june 3rd primary. but he has an interesting story. lost his parents, built two multi-million corporations but cold them. but he is openly gay, in a committed relationship run...

>> matt, to switch gears a whole lot. going back to the district youre representing, district 33. voters decided with proposition 13 in 2010 to ensure california would have open primaries, california is not the only state to do this, but it means that all candidates run in the same primary and the top two vote getters advance in the general. what does this mean for your proposed or perhaps maybe your district if youre able to win this election, will it be more costly s-it more moderate, more com...

Political obituary was being written in the wake of the june 3rd primary in which cochran failed to clear 50%. everyone is supposed that it would be a mcdaniel victory. that is because everyone figured tonights election would be a lower turnout affair. they were wrong on that. the total votes cast so far have already exceeded that amount that is in the june 3rd primary. that cochrane clinging to a 2% lead with 97% of precincts in, 179,000 votes. that is going to be somewhat difficult for mcdanie...

It, there was an open primary. theres no registration. anybody who didnt vote in the democratic primary could vote. the cochran campaign played the game by the rules. mr. mcdaniel sounded like a soar lose -- sore loser. they brought more people into the process which is a way you win elections. in terms was african-american gent gentleman maybe hell vote for the democrat in the fall. >> it seem what were saying toward cochran. also cochran ads targeting mcdaniels stance against anything governme...