To Chris Mcdaniel saying are you going to challenge the results and the response was stay tuned . A nasty finish to a tough race. Mississippi Tea Party CandidateChris Mcdaniel with a not so conciliatory speech after losing to incumbent senator thad cochran. There is something a bit strange. There is something a bit unusual about a republican primary thats decided by liberal democrats. Thank you all for being here to help celebrate a great victory. This is your victory. Reporter cochrane, who trailed mcdaniel in the republican primary june 3rd spent the past three weeks courting voters outside the gop base, including africanamericans, pointing to federal funds he secured throughout his 36 years in the senate. And to those who say, you know what, you have been reelected time and time again, your opponent says its just too much. Youve been there too long. Well, im the choice the people have made freely and openly. Reporter in the largely africanamerican precinct we visited, turnout was up three times what it was for the primary, and it was higher elsewhere. Who did you vote for . Thad cochran. Reporter have you ever voted in a republican primary before . I have not. I guess they can take some consolation in the fact that they did something tonight, by once compromising, but once again reaching across the aisle and once again abandoning the conservative movement. Reporter observers were sent to the polls fearing improprietary from the other side which did not materialize. In the end it was just over 6,000 votes that separated the two. We all have a right to be proud of our state tonight. Thank you very much. Thank you for this wonderful honor. Reporter chris and kate, because it was not just a few hundred votes, even 1,000 vote, it appears 6,000 votes that cochran does appear to be winning by, or maybe have won by, thats why cochran aides i talked to say that they feel pretty comfortable, really comfortable in this win, despite the threats or even suggestions by Chris Mcdaniel that hes going to challenge this. In talking to mcdaniel leading into the primary or the runoff, i should say, he was already laying the groundwork for potentially challenging this on a legal basis because the Cochran Campaign was so overtly courting nonrepublican voters into the republican runoff. As far as we can see, it was pretty legal. Well, they dont have a runoff law there, and what would you find . Votes are equal in this day and age. That is mississippi election law. They just count them. Lets break down the significance of these results with our panel of political experts. Take a deep brat, sam hall, assistant managing editor, margaret hoover, john avalon and editorinchief of the daily beast an errol lewis, anchor for new york ones inside city hall, all in a single breath, who is better than me, no one . I heard you breathe. Just a big nose. Sam hall, lets start with you on the ground down there. Is this expected . What do you make of the introduction of nonrepublican voters . Whats your headline . I think the headline in heinz county, the largest county where cochran with his largest county in the primary, he got more votes in the runoff than there were cast in the primary. It increased almost 50 . There were about 8,000 more votes cast. He took 7,000 of those. Mcdaniel took 1,000 of those. That is a majority democratic county, but i think the the increase is probably pretty evenly split between the republican or whiter boxes and more diverse and minority democratic boxes so thats going to be the big thing. They flipped a lot of other counties in rural and along the coast, but that big win there in heinz is what buffered him against mcdaniel and secured his win. John avalon, and margaret, cochrans win is described as pitching a perfect political game in how he pulled this off and turned around his campaign in three weeks. What did he do so perfectly . What changed from june 3rd . First of all, intense focus on the part of his campaign to get out the vote. Whats different is that the Cochran Campaign expanded the map to look like a general election, look like a general election as opposed to typically a runoff where turnout is down after a primary. They brought it up. Promised to have a Diverse Coalition and the africanamerican turnout which obviously is not traditional. They came out for cochran because mcdaniel seemed very unsavory, taking money from an old klan lawyer and also thad cochran delivered to his state, not a popular message with the tea party but pretty favorable for average folks in mississippi. This is a perversion of the process. Hes the incumbent incumbent. Thats a first. But its because youre talking nice things about republicans for the first time in a little while so ive got to let you go. You win more flies with hon than vinegar. We saw the tone and rhetoric of his competitor right there not about unifying the party or bringing people together and thad cochran, people like him in his state. Hes a nice guy, also been around for a while. Im all for people liking new politics. Help me out here. Its a republican primary and you beat me by courting democrats. Yes, the law allows it, but isnt there something not kosher about that in. The law encourages it, as a matter of fact. Saw the same thing in the cantor primary that seems to have thrown so many people off, but the reality is once you change the rules so that anybody can vote, what you really are talking about is a twostage general election, and, you know, its not how we do things in new york and not how we do things probably in most states, but if thats what the rules allow . Dirty pool, even if allowed . Different strategy, new strategy so instead of going to the extremes you go to the center, and frankly if we had a lot more elections like that wed probably be better off as a nation. Thats the point. 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 they are compromising too much. This formula will be the restoration of sanity but for the Republican Party and as we saw in new york last night as well, sort of a take back of the Republican Party by the reform republicans pushing back on radical extremes in the Republican Party. This is going to make for amore balanced congress frankly and more productive congress. Before we jump off of mississippi, dane ark. I want to get your take on the most basic level. Is mcdaniel going to concede . What do you think, or will this have to play out in the courts . Its really unclear. As i said, their campaign is making very strong suggestions that he might try to challenge it in the courts. It will potentially be an uphill bat. He was laying the groundwork for saying that it is illegal, and the reason is because, you know, chris is a lawyer and im sure a lot of you are as well, that the law here does not allow somebody to vote one way in a primary or a runoff if they intend to vote for a Different Party in the general election. The problem is the federal courts have said thats almost impossible to enforce. You cant enforce somebody to vote one way and get into their mind and think the way that they feel months down the road so it could be potential real uphill climb for him. The one other point i want to make about big picture go ahead. No, please go ahead. Reporter other point i want to make about the big picture, ive been talking to people on the ground who also have a National Portfolio for the Republican Party who are hoping that they can use this as a microcosm to grow the Republican Party which is much need federal they want to win the white house back and so forth. The problem is, as you all have said, thad cochran might be a very unique situation. He has for decades been reaching out to africanamerican voters, and he has for decades been reaching across the aisle here. That is why he had such a tea party challenge, but in the end it ironically saved him because of the system here. Lets get to sam hall because perception is often reality in politics. First of all, how is it playing down there where you are in terms of does this look like this was just a good use of the system, or does it seem that this was somehow, you know, a result down there, that this is somehow illegitimate, and do me a favor explain how the law works. Have you no recount and an openended thing that plays to the intentionality of the voter. Explain how the story is playing down there. Well, i mean, it depends on who you ask. The tea party base mcdaniel supporters, you know where they stand, and they are the ones who are the angriest about it. Cochrans camp has been kind of couching this in terms of reagan and putting that back on mcdaniel which was he reached out to a Democratic Base as well to help expand his electorate, but as far as the way it wrorks down here. There is no automatic recount. The only way that hes going to have a successful challenge is to be able to prove that there was enough illegalities or controversial votes to either toss out individual votes or cause recounts in certain counties. Hes going to look at heinz county. There were unsubstantiated reports of pros party voting, people voting in the Democratic Party and talking with the members of the Campaign Last night and early this morning, already attacking pete perry who is the chairman of the Republican Party in heinz county who is a big cochran supporter and his form was paid to do tv for a cochran pac putting some of the blame on him saying he allowed a lot of people to vote who should not have been able to vote and thats really outside the scope, you know, of what any one person and much less pete perry would do and they will look at the delta and some of the other counties where you saw high increases in africanamerican votes to see if there were any irregularities that they might get tossed in court, but any challenge has to go through the courts. Its a long shot, and as long as people didnt vote in the primary, democratic primary, then they are allowed to vote in the runoofs, and the only thing that can prove that their intent for the general is what they say. Yeah. Thats the problem. Thats going to be the problem Going Forward. Your inability to enforce a law isnt going to be what allows a law to stand or not, thats actually a second issue but when a weird law. If you dont vote in the democratic primary you can vote in the republican primary as long as you say you dont think you will support whoever won the democratic primary. Its the law. Thats weird. Lets move from one incumbent fight in mississippi to another incumbent fight here in new york. The fine state of new york. Charlie rangel, errol, what happened here, everyone all but said were planning his retirement party. Nobody talked to Charlie Rangel about that. When he ran two years ago and won his 22nd term, he was actually in a walker. He had had some real Serious Health problems and still managed to squeak it out. This time around its like he was ten years younger, all over the place. Have him footage of dancing with aretha frank lip. He ran the table basically, sort of like a political clinic on how to do retail politics. Shook every hand, kissed babies, ran all over the place and raised more money than his opponents and we called the race at new york one. Weve been following this pretty intensively. Cnn still has not. Cnn, a. P. , others are waiting. In fact, theres a couple of thousand vote margin between rangel and his nearest challenger espaillat. On the other hand, the number of outstanding ballots, federal, affidavit ballots cast yesterday, equal exactly that so unless almost every single one of hthose come in for the challenger, it looks like rangel has his 23rd term. New york citys board of elections has screwed up in the past, wants to wait and count every vote, you know, but his supporters after he spoke last night pretty much started taking down the signs. A lot of energy went out of the campaign at that moment. Its a real tough and interesting kind of a race, but, you know, the power of incumbency and in a race that was characterized as africanamerican incumbent being challenged by a latino sort of insurgent in a district mostly latino, that in itself doesnt capture some of the texture of new york politics. Charles rangel we think of him as the black politician, his father is puerto rican. His district has always included east harlem which has been heavily latino for decades, so hes been a crossover politician, been sort of a bridgebuilder in a lot of different ways so running a straight ethnic campaign wouldnt have worked in this case. You wouldnt have necessarily expected it to. That plus a lot of the usual kind of mistakes that campaigns often make. You you size it all up, and it is rational and logical that rangel would have won. Man, was rangel not anything like eric cantor. He took this as a serious challenge. Is eric cantor a oneoff . Yes. We do not have a story of dave brat last night. You know who lost last night, sarah palin, sean hannity, all the taert folks. The incumbents took their races seriously and insurgents took it seriously and thats why Charlie Rangel is here tonight. Poor margaret hoover, two enemies, half her party. Old republicans are taking it ba back. Great to see you all, errol, margaret, whatever your name is, john, thanks, you guys. Well get to some of the very other interesting primaries last night. Ongoing conversation, and theres a lot of other news this morning as well so lets get that with michaela. Good morning, my friend. Good morning and welcome back to you, chris. We want to take you now to iraq where isis militants are maintaining a stronghold over vast swaths of the country. U. S. Officials say isis fighters are functioning as a, quote, increasingly Capable Military force, and this morning 90 more military advisers are on the ground to assess the iraqi forces which have so far been essentially ineffective against the aggressive and fast moving insurgency. Right now sunni extremists are fighting north of baghdad. Fears growing now that the capital will be the next city to fall. Lets go straight to Barbara Starr who has more for us from the pentagon. Good morning, barbara. Reporter good morning, michaela. A total now of 130 u. S. Advisers on the ground in iraq and about 50 more headed in in the coming days. Their main job, to assess, we are told, assess the state of iraqi forces, assess the state of the militant fighters, but heres the assessment. According to the u. S. 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