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[ 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 state's runoff election, mcdaniel still has not conceded the race, as his supporters continue to search for instances of illegal voting where democrats who didn't vote in the june 3rd primary then voted in the runoff election. senator cochran received 7,667 more votes than mcdaniel in that runoff but on friday mcdaniel butt o...

Primary where mississippi democrats gave me 74% of the total vote. i'll 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. it's amazing how that speech is still relevant today. i can't tell you how many people across our great state feel like they have just been forgotten. forgotten men, forgotten women and, sadly, forgotten children. 300,000 people in our state because of the republican-held legisl...

Primary moves forward. what does it say democrats can take away as a positive? >> that's a great question. there are not that many situations where you have an open primary, especially on the republican side. >> they're there. >> and the democrats try to influence the colorado primary. republicans didn't succeed. i'm not sure there's 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 winning a lot of races. they aren't winning the fight in congress. it's not producing a congress on ...

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 ...

the way to mississippi. today's vote will be a true test of what's more powerful, anti-establishment anger or senator thad cochran's 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 well the secretary of state reports more absentee ballots were requested prior to the runoff than p...