The Washington Examiner s Sarah Westwood predicted that Ronna McDaniel will remain the Republican National Committee chairwoman despite big endorsements for her opponent.
former chairman of the south carolina republican party and joins us from colombia in south carolina. i appreciate you both being here. i want the two of you here because i see phillip as quintessential tea party guy and dawson quintessential republican party guy. this has crystallized the mistrust that exists and open warfare that exists between the tea party base and republican establishment and racises questions to co-exist. you said that in response to what happened in and thousand cochran won the race, you want mississippis to vote not for thad cochran but the democratic candidate. can you explain? well, right, when the republicans are so desperate to keep a big spending lifetime
this? we re hearing it from mostly supporters, a lot of the volunteers who have been involved with the race, people who are on social media and who have been reactive in kind of pushing their message and agenda. there was a staffer yesterday who is close to mcdaniel who lashed out on twitter. he eventually deleted that tweet and sent out a press release where he explained his rilgsship with mayfield. didn t apologize for what he said. the gist of it and it s gotten uglier and uglier, the police mishandled the way they arrested him and the district attorney you know came up with bogus charges or the bond was set too high. and you know, that the cochran campaign and supporters made political hay out of something they shouldn t have. the blame is being put out
university level. you know, where clearly you have university professors taking controversial positions in their classrooms, a political science professor and so forth. now it takes seven years or so to get tenure in a university enyou have to publish and do all kinds of things. all you need to do is survive. and not get rated unsatisfactory a couple of years and brought up on charged. all you got to do is sit there and wait for the clock to tick. it doesn t have to tick very long. okay, so dennis, one thing wayne asked there, can you point to an example in one of those types of cases, where that s happening? absolutely. it happens all the time. when if the law is removed, the right to have due process and by the way, tenure at the university level give us an example then. i ll give you an example. somebody removed for race or
this is not the party of reagan. no! but we re not done fighting. when we re done, it will be. that was chris mcdaniel in what was not his concession speech on tuesday night after losing to thad cochran by less than two points. we talked about the way he won the race this week, reaching out to african-americans who generally vote democratic enraged his defeated tea party opponents and toe party leaders across the country. insider republicans in the senate bought 9 or 10 percentage points from the black uncle tom voters in mississippi. so with these tensions building, what will be the national fallout from the cochran/mcdaniel race. we have phillip dennis, and the