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Lost to thad cochran two weeks ago, is pushing for another election in the state's 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. cochran's 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're looking to see how many ineligible voters voted in the runoff. ...

Voters in the june 3rd primary to more than 360,000 yesterday. and then to just show you the impact of african-american voters, here's 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 cochran's margin was nearly twice that at 11,000. in a race cochran won by 6,000 votes, that's pretty much your ball game right there, folks. there's another aspect to that. mcdaniels' defeat is what happens when you outsource your ...

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 you're a democrat and mississippi voter would you come to the policy when there is a chance you can beat mcdaniel. >> cochran's forces seem to think they have a lit of maybe momentum this week. i think it is actually a jump ball at this point. >> watch that one on tuesday night. everybody stay put. tomorrow's news today is next as our rep...

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 party's norm nominee former representative travis childers would start statistically tied with mcdaniel. a race against cochran who is well liked would be difficult to the point of futility. instead o...

That they need to turn out. and i think that in particular, the super pac that's been backing cochran will shift its focus to that. because it's not necessarily that the turnout was lower than they needed it to be. it's more that they didn't do as well in the places that they needed to do well. those that should have been strong for cochran weren't. 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 republican group, that was supporting cochran against mcdaniel thus far, that they say, we're ...