in a conference call with reporters, an unknown caller lit into cochran. black people are harvesting cotton, why do you think it s okay to harvest their votes. reporter: the mcdaniel camp condemned the racial tone, bus his supporters were accused of strange behavior earlier in the race. mark mayfield, for example, was suspected in a plot to break into a nursing home and photograph cochran s wife, who suffers from dementia. police arrested mayfield and he died, an aapparently suicide. now comes the latest twist. mcdaniel is offering a $1,000 bounty to anyone who can prove that some people illegally voted in the democratic primary and the republican runoff. he believes there are thousands of examples. what this is about is the integrity of the election. reporter: coke real s responsible, chris mcdaniel doesn t care anything about the integrity of the process, chris
crying foul and when cochran s campaign held a conference call with reporters yesterday it took a strange turn in what has already been a bizarre story. listen to this. black people are harvesting cotton, why do you think it s okay to harvest their votes? they re not animals. why do you treat black people like they re just there to vote. sir, i don t know, you know, where you re calling from, but i m happy to address any question no matter the lunacy of it. why do you use black people to try to get cochran elected when they re not even republicans and you re treating them as if they re just idiots that they ll vote for cochran just because they re black. that s ridiculous. did you harvest those votes? so here s what we ll do. we ll try keep going through this call. if individuals have decided they want to hijack this call, we ll
voter irregularities, an unidentified caller kept interrupting with comments like these. i d like to know if black people were harvesting cotton, why do you think it s okay to harvest their votes? why did you use black people? why did you use black people to try to get cochran elected when they re not even republicans and you re treating them as if they re just idiots, that they ll vote for cochran just because they re black? that s ridiculous. cochran campaign surrogates hung up shortly after the interruption while other people on the call stayed on the phone debating who might have been making those remarks. today it remains unclear who the voice on the call was. before the call started, a conservative blogger named chuck johnson had tweeted out the conference call number and password, urging people to crash the call with him. to break this all down, i m joined now by someone who s become a familiar voice and face on the show here, sam hall, the assistant managing editor and colu
support was the campaign conference call which quickly turned chaotic. black people were harvesting cotton, why do you think it s okay to harvest their votes? they re not animals. why are you treating black people like they re animals. sir, i don t know where you re calling from but i m happy to address any question, no matter the lunacy of it. well, why do you use black people to try to get cochran elected when they re not even republicans and you re treating them as if they re just idiots that they ll vote for cochran just because they re black. it s ridiculous. why do you harvest the black votes? here s what we re going to do. we re going to keep trying to go through this call with the individuals who decided they want to hijack this call and will just get through it and i ll be glad to answer any of your questions.