[ male announcer ] ask your doctor today if eliquis is right for you. time now for some tdr 2014 trail mix. heading south now to mississippi where the drama continues nearly three weeks after senator thad cochran defeated his tea party challenger, chris mcdaniel, in the state s runoff election, mcdaniel still has not conceded the race, as his supporters continue to search for instances of illegal voting where democrats who didn t vote in the june 3rd primary then voted in the runoff election. senator cochran received 7,667 more votes than mcdaniel in that runoff but on friday mcdaniel butt out a press release saying, quote, we have found over 8300 questionable ballots cast, many of which were unconstitutionally cast by voters ineligible to participate in the june 24th runoff election. mcdaniel plans to hold a press conference on wednesday in
message out. had the money to do it. beth, now is the time to do something. the rubber hits the road. what does he have to give to the black democrats, the democrats that helped him win? well, i mean, it will be nice if he starts thinking that way as a senator. let s face it, he s been somebody that brought home lots of bacon to mississippi. he s going to be that. it s going to help the citizens of the state. that s how he ran. he made a compelling message in this part of the primary. not the primary but the runoff. he s going to don t do what he s done. which irritated tea party folks but other people? the state appreciated it. if you look at the message with the voter. maybe part of the lesson is that a hard stance against disaster aid is not a great winner in a gulf coast state ravaged by hurricanes. one might operate on that. i agree with you there in terms of where nick, also, when we look at the kcaulk ran strategy which may be replayed as the
primary where mississippi democrats gave me 74% of the total vote. i ll be back asking for them again. chuck, as i travel around the state and listen, listen more than you talk, you know, and you learn a lot of things. a lot of families struggling in our state. president roosevelt spoke about the forgotten man in 1932. it s amazing how that speech is still relevant today. i can t tell you how many people across our great state feel like they have just been forgotten. forgotten men, forgotten women and, sadly, forgotten children. 300,000 people in our state because of the republican-held legislature and governor and republicans in general, 300,000 working poor have no access to health care and no hope of getting any. that s just wrong, period. you re going to have to convince democrats like harry reid, michael bennett who runs the dsec, to invest in your candidacy. they played your candidacy when they recruited you as the
primary moves forward. what does it say democrats can take away as a positive? that s a great question. there are not that many situations where you have an open primary, especially on the republican side. they re there. and the democrats try to influence the colorado primary. republicans didn t succeed. i m not sure there s grand strategic lessons. what is fascinating is the opposite a little bit. which is that, you know, the establishment, so to speak. the business wing of the gop is winning a lot of races. they aren t winning the fight in congress. it s not producing a congress on the republican side but delivering the chamber of commerce what they. the they re spending the money but may not getting the results. that s right. the tea party is and, you know, the whole gop and the house is about to possibly kill the import/export. which is a huge priority for the chamber of commerce and the business groups. another race we re watching
they lost because all the political forces in mississippi including the barbours, and haley barbour is still almost like god in mississippi, number one. number two, the cochran forces were very clever to appeal to democratic voters. it is an open primary. there s nothing illegal about it. i think it was democrat irk voters that probably made the difference. let s look at that question. david, it seems like cochran eked out this victory in part due to these democratic voters and actually specifically african-american voters seemed to turn out. this is one example i found interesting. hinds county, mississippi, 70% black, didn t play any role in the june 3rd primary, yet in this recent runoff cochran won with 72%, 18,000 votes. he got new voters out and in particular democratic and black voters. mcdaniel took issue with that. should voters take issue with that? anything deceptive about snit. a host of folks woke up this