Chris McDaniel failed to unseat U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in the Mississippi Republican primary, and Tea Party activists are taking the loss as hard as the candidate.
Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran (R) fended off the challenge of former state Sen. Chris McDaniel in a hotly-contested GOP primary late Tuesday night, the Associated Press reported.
In a campaign appearance on Tuesday, embattled Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran (R) raised eyebrows with what appeared to be an off-color joke about his rural boyhood.
Authorities in Mississippi are trying to determine how three Tea Party officials wound up locked inside a courthouse hours after ballots were counted in an extremely tight Republican primary election.
Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel battled to a virtual draw on Tuesday in their bitter Republican Senate primary and appeared headed to a rematch in a June 24 runoff.
The vice chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party was among three men arrested in connection with a political blogger's latest attempt to photograph Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-MS) wife as she slept inside her nursing home, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported on Thursday.
