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Establishment republican in 2014 especially after this cochran stumble. >> it's something i don't really know a lot about. >> reporter: millions of dollars pouring in to mississippi against cochran come from a who's who of tea party groups nationwide. >> mcdaniels says he's a lifelong republican. >> reporter: like other republican incumbents this year, cochran and allies are fighting back painting mcdaniel as extreme and inconsistent. >> chris mcdaniel, he says one thing, his record says something else. >> reporter: at this point cochran is trying to avoid errors, going to head scratching extr...

And he is what we need in washington, d.c. to stay as long as he wants to stay. >> reporter: at this point, cochran is trying to avoid unforced errors, going to head-scratching extremes to avoid talking to us. we tried to catch cochran after this event. but when an aide came out and saw us, they did a bait and switch. the car they told us cochran was getting in screeched away without him, while he snuck out another door to a different car, leaving reporters like us in the dust, unable to talk to the senator. >> dana, this story is incredible on every level, including that. going to those lengt...

This republican primary was supposed to be about the struggle of ideas within the gop. >> chris mcdaniel. >> reporter: a young tea party-backed upstart challenging a fellow republican for being out of touch and too entrenched in washington after 36 years in the senate. now chris mcdaniel is fending off questions about whether his campaign had anything to do with photographing his opponent's sick wife. >> our campaign had absolutely no connection to that whatsoever. >> reporter: you personally, when did you find out about the break-in? >> we're going focus on his record right now. >> god bless ...

Call him the next ted cruz. but obviously, trying to -- this whole link possibly to taking pictures of senator cochran's wife in a hospice is distasteful at best. does mcdaniel still have a shot at winning? >> when i talked to him today he says they feel confident, they feel good. but i have to say that republican sources who i think are pretty good in washington who are fighting really hard for cochran insist that he is going to survive. he is going to stay in the senate. and they are really hoping that happens for a lot of reasons. but they hope this deals another blow to the tea party. we'l...