african-american voters who decided to vote for cochran. why did they? reporter: lots of reasons. first is because many of them like him. they have voted for him. have known him for years. have seen the benefits that many of them have had in their community that from him being in washington, sending federal dollars to mississippi, but the flipside is they voted for him because they were concerned about chris mcdaniel. this is a state that tends to elect republicans to the senate, has for several decades, so they figured that he would likely be the senator and they were concerned about that. listen to what many of these voters told me yesterday while they were voting. i voted for thad cochran. have you ever voted in a republican primary before. i have nod not. why did you vote for cochran? i like senator cochran. i don t like what senator mcdaniel stands for. who did you vote for? thad cochran.
uncomfortable moment in capitol hill. oh, yeah, top republicans and democrats normally at war singing at peace to honor the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act and maybe in a sign of progress, a long time senator from the deep south reaches across the aisle and color barrier and republican thad cochran wins a shot at the 7th term. his tea party challenger is furious in defeat. a bit unusual about a republican primary that s decided by liberal democrats. so much for bold colors. so much for principle. so let s talk about all of this. chief congressional correspondent dana bash is peter handby is in washington. welcome to you both. so dana, talk about these