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Now the tea party has momentum. back down in mississippi where they hope they can beat the 76-year-old thad dock ran in tomorrow s primary run-off. in the new poll out today shows mcdaniel headed into tomorrow s run-off election with an eight-point lead over thad cochran, the incumbent. the post writes while thad cochran stumps on years of bringing federal spending back to mississippi the mcdaniel campaign has tapped into a feeling that the country is slipping away. his bet, more voters will turn out for a revolution than highway spending. sam hall the clarion ledger of jackson, mississippi. and amy kramer is a tea party activist. thank you both. speak your minds. sam, what s the feeling among tea party people that animates them most today? i think there is genuine anger now at what they perceived as some of the dirty tactics the ....
Chris, it s bigger than just mississippi. it s this anti-incumbent mentality across the nation. i agree. what did you think when you heard eric cantor was knocked off by ten points? a big upset. he was slam banged out of office. what did you think when that happened? i was shocked at first. i was not expecting it like everybody everyone else. it shows the people are fed up. that s part of the problem. on both sides of the aisle. these politicians go to washington with and they forget why they went to washington and who they represent. they become disconnected and become more caught up with the power and control and staying on the d.c. cocktail circuit than actually representing the people that sent them there. so the fact that eric cantor lost that seat, i think that had a big part of it. i mean, there are other issue that is come into play there. i was shocked as everyones else. ....
There was a picture of him, his wife and children in their under the sea garb. joe biden hosted his annual media picnic on saturday. here you can see him planning a water gun attack with his grandchildren along for the fun. a reporter for the associated press tweeted out a picture of biden armed with a water gun. the caption read, the vice president of the united states just shot me with a super soaker. maybe we need background checks for these things. up next, the tea party may be on the verge of another victory in mississippi. there could be more coming. that s ahead. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. [ grunting ] ....
let me ask you, sam. . the people of mississippi when they society in the primary run-off, are they aware they are part of rolling thunder starting with cantor and going into this and on to kansas and tennessee and perhaps knocking off roberts or knocking off lamar alexander? do they know they are part of a national thing amy mentioned? oh, yeah. absolutely. i think especially on the tea party side. in this three-week run-off period, cochrane s campaign and his supporters doubled down. their efforts are night and day compared to what they were doing during the primary. there is a fight on one side with the tea party and mcdaniel supporters who are part of the movement. they are excited and genuinely grassroots energized. on the other side, it s a lot of the establishment but also a lot of the elected officials on both sides of the aisle who are desperately trying to hold onto seniority in congress. mississippi has enjoyed a long history of having senior ....
Congressmen or senators in powerful positions. thad cochran represents the last of that. if he were voted out mississippi would find itself without real seniority in potash washington for the first time in a long time. amy, i think they should vote on a war and not let the president decide everything. when you get rid of the guys in there now and he s 76 and you bring in younger guys how will you make them any different? big spending is a problem. deficit spending, debt. what is he going to cut, get rid of? what do you want him to do as a standard of whether to keep the job or not now that you ve got it? that s a big part of this. we have to hold them accountable. why we are in this situation is because for years we have been electing people and sending them to washington with blind trust. now once we elect them we have ....